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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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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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!
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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
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In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'
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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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As a gold-card-carrying member of the nerd herd, I'm usually in the artsy, fringy, PBS-y kind of shows that change maybe five people's lives forever while leaving everyone else wondering if they can still make the ticket lottery at 'Wicked.'
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
