Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
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White America is in the minority.
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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
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What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
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One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."
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That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
