Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everything like that. So I look up to him.
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I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
