Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.
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I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors.
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Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.
