Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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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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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
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My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.
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I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
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The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
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At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
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I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
