Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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In the morning, I use a Philosophy cleanser and Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream, which sinks in well and feels firming. I rarely wear foundation, so cotton wool soaked in warm water is often enough to cleanse at night, but I take off eye make-up with Klorane's cornflower-infused remover.
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If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
