Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
