Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
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Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
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I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
