Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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The world of online marketing, where HubSpot operates, though, has a reputation for being kind of grubby. Our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers or gaming Google's search algorithm or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message.
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
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The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
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However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
