Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you
