Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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Come on, keep it going. There’s so much for us to see. It don’t matter where we are as long as you’re with me.
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
