Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.
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Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.
