Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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He checked, of course. Being sure and being willing to risk that surety against his future were not the same thing.
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The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.
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During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
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You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.
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There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.
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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
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I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.
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My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.
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It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.
