Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.
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I think every album serves as a step in your career.
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And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.
