Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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I have an incredibly high metabolism.
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Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.
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The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.
