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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For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
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The UFC has been nothing but great to me. I can't complain; they give me what I want.
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I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
