Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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My health is fine.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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'Spring One' probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it's all Vivaldi. It's odd. It's a bit like walking around a sculpture, you just sort of see it from a different angle.
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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
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He had not guessed how much of the body of a Quest was simply walking.
