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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Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
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Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.
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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
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Clearly they recognize that content security is an incredibly valuable and necessary component in that video offering.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
