Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
