Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I’m sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.
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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
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The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I’m sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
