Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
Quotes to Explore
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
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I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
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Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
