Katherine Dunn Quotes
The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
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I would love to be a role model.
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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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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.
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I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories.
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Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
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I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
