Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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I find you get out of people what you put into them.
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
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I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
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I'm a product of what I believe in.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
