Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.
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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
