Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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Its extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
