Katherine Dunn Quotes
Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I always played to win.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I try to do my best.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
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One of the strangest things that used to happen at half time was that you'd come in, and you would have to sit down and be quiet. Get your drink, your energy bars or whatever, and sit down.
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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
