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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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
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The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
