Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I got through college.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
