Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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They came to the Delectable Mountains.
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Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.
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I encourage everyone I know that whether it be in their workplace, whether it be in a political arena or within their own families, to do what their gut tells them to do. And that involves calling it like they see it and tackling the tasks that are at hand and not worrying so much what other people are thinking or saying about them.
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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.