Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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I've directed independent film.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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The term 'plus size' is so inaccurate. I'm not plus size; I have never bought an article of clothing that was plus size.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I'm not interested in leaving it open-ended. That would just cause me frustration. I wouldn't be satisfied. What's really cool about Fringe, and one of the things we did do right, was that the way we chose to tell the story was that, with every season, there was a closure and then a new chapter. That allowed us to actually make the closure.
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In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
