Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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I hate competition.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
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Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition, and ambition can easily have caused the inspiration or what we thought to be inspiration. But reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition. He tumbles where his vehement drive calls him; no longer does he choose his position, but rather chance and luster determine it.
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Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
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For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.
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Day by day, we let love just walk awayAnd I'll be the first to say, I was glad to see it goAnd day by day, ever since you went awayI'm finding I'm still missing you, and I just got to know...Does that blue moon ever shine on you?I wanna hold you close to me, feel just like it used to be.And baby, if you feel like I do,You can come to me.
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Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.
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When greeting Pope Benedict a few years ago, I was meant to kiss the papal ring but I head-butted his hand instead. He just laughed at me.
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Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.
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Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
