Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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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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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.
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It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a little bit, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket.
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Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.
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You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?
