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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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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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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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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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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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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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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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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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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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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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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Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.
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I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow