Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
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If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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It's the heart that really matters in the end.
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
