Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
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You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.
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I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.
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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.
