Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
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Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
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Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
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In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.
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Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
