Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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Boyapati is one of the few directors who can pull off a masala film like 'Sarrainodu'.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.
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They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.
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I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
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I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things.
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When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
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My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.
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Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
