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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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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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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I love women.
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There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
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I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.
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You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.
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You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.
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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
