Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
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I began to get calls from constituents, 'Do you think you can ever get on transportation?' So when there was a vacancy created, I worked very hard to get there.
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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
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You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
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I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.
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I like to explore things.
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Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
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Phillip Noyce was not just good to me but an inspiration to me.
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I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
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Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
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We definitely “grow” demos. In the beginning, we have a rough idea, and it usually is a work in progress for a few months. We usually have a couple going at the same time. When a song gets “there”, we will then zero in on it, and focus and finish it.
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I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I’d have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.
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My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
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You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.
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You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
