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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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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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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Like a hawk about to devour its prey, the wings of public opinion hover above the head of the judge. All the Court’s decisions are disguised and indirect forms of pleading at the bar of public opinion.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
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It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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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.
