Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
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Stat magni nominis umbra.
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I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
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'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
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I always make time for the things that are important to me.
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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The media sells it and you live the role.
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I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
