Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
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What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.
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David and I enjoy a relaxed meal around 8. We like to eat on the couch while we watch TV. Sometimes we channel-flip, but we also watch shows like 'House of Cards,' 'The Crown,' or 'Game of Thrones.'
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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
