Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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A country can't love you. At most it may need you. It's much the same as people.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
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I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.
