Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.
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Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
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Technical display in Chopin, after the early works, is transmuted into tone color or dramatic gesture-we may say, to accept the prejudices of Chopin's own generation, that it has been ennobled. This is the source of much of the poetry in Chopin's music: it comes from the transformation of the vulgar into something aristocratic.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
