Katherine Dunn Quotes
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
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When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
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Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.
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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.
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You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.
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We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great
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Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.
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If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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I'm just a regular Joe.
