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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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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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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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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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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All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
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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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Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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To be a good mother - a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.
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Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
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When you have all the bells and whistles - you've got the big, fancy catering, you've got the big, fancy car service and the big, fancy trailer - it makes it very comfortable and everybody's making a lot of money. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to end up with a great film.
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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.
