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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Percentages are why I am rich.
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I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
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Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
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...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
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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.
