Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

All witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.

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• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

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• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

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• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

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• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

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• My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

  

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• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

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• We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

  

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

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• Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

  

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• My work is a game, a very serious game.

  

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• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

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• Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.

  

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• And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.

  

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• I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

  

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• Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

  

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• The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

  

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• I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

  

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• I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

  

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• All witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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