Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Everything can be satirized.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
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I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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'I will say this once.' Edward turned to the others. 'I’m in command on this mission. Do not, at any time, attempt to wrest control from me. If what you see dismays you, avert your eyes.'
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In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent.
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When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'
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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.
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My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'
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I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.
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How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
