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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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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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 don't care about the critics.
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The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]
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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.
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I guess I always had made some assumptions about what it would be like to work in a tech company, and some were right, and some were wrong. I had a lot of, looking back on it, now naive ideas about how companies build their brands, and a lot of those notions I ended up realizing were kind of wrong.
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Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
