Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.
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I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
