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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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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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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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I always survive. And I don't let it stop me.
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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.
