Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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Does this country really exist?
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Every man's actions belong to him.
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Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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Don't you know how far women stretch?
