Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I'll teach you differences.
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
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They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.
