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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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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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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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.
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Working on a campaign and running for president should be a visceral, emotional, passionate, and intense experience.
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The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
