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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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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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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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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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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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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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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I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.
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I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.
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Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.
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When I was outed, it was like, That's done.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
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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.
