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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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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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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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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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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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror.
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It's an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
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If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.
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Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
