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 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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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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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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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
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At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
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There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
