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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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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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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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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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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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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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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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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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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Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.
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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
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There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.
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These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
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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.
