Katherine Dunn Quotes
'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.
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I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.
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I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?
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I like to feel the same when I'm on stage and when I'm not.
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I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.
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The development process is not that simple... When I started working at Fox in '92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren't viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.
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'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.
