Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.
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I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
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A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
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I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
