Katherine Dunn Quotes
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
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Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.
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Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.
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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
