Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

  

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• I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Think
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• I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Help
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• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  

  Randall Terry
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  • Fool
  • Shame

• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

  Ian K. Smith
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  • Women
  • Job

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
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• Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • God
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  • Write

• Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Mind
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• For the love of God Montresor!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • God

• I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.

  

  Anushka Shetty
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• There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

  

  Bonnie Hunt

• I've worked with a lot of beauty companies over the years, but I really have to say that my own routine is very natural; like, I really try to be careful about the stuff I'm putting into my body, onto my body. I do believe in beauty foods - like, a lot of blueberries, salmon, kale, quinoa, avocado.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Believe

• I never consciously choose what I'm going to work on next; I don't have an agenda beyond that attraction. Fortunately, my wonderful agent, Christopher Schelling, knows how I think and points me toward things I might like, which is how I started writing Y.A.

  

  Kathe Koja
  • Work
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• If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

  

  Jason Fried

• In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

  

  Danny McBride
  • People
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• Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and, therefore, increase the likelihood of making a sale.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • People
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• I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

  

  Charles Grodin
  • Guy
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• War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • War
  • Romantic

• I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Words
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

  

  John Selden

• Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Food
  • Pies
  • Cabbages