Katherine Dunn Quotes
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
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The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing.
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It offended him and mocked his wounded soul: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did.
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I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
