Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
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When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I'm not very good at. But a few things I've gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.
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You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty.
