Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
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Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
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All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
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I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
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When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
