Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.
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The reason why I hated school so intensely was that it interfered with my freedom.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
