Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
