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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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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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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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet.
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Addressing a group of military officers: Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
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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.
