Katherine Dunn Quotes
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.
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Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.
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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
