Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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'Cause maybe you're loveable.Maybe you're my snowflake.And your eyes turn from green to gray.And in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.And you should never cut your hair,'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.And you will never knowJust how beautiful you are to me.But maybe I'm just in loveWhen you wake me up.
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Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.
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This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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Until I don’t lose, until I am not defeated such allegations will continue. People who have been trying to defeat me for the past 12 years have been using all their strength. They couldn't give me even a scratch. This is their ego problem.
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
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Technological progress - and it is a pity more do not appreciate it - is the one sound approach to increased employment and higher wages. There is no other way. Irrespective of what is being said to the contrary, new industries can be created, present industries can be expanded, unemployment can be eliminated in a practical way
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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I don't like singing before noon.
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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
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I was still auditioning when I was in college, but I wasn't really giving it the old college try. I was giving college the old college try.
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I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
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Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.
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God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
