Katherine Dunn Quotes
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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Over Babiy Yarthere are no memorials.The steep hillside like a rough inscription.I am frightened.Today I am as old as the Jewish race.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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It's hard to give tips to skiers if I don't know how they ski, but I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.
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A substance showing resonance between two or more valence-bond structures does not contain molecules with the configurations and properties usually associated with these structures.
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It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
