Katherine Dunn Quotes
We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.

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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.
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I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.