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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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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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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I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.
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Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
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You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
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At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
