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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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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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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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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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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If you want to get along, go along.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
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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.
