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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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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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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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
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Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
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I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
