Katherine Dunn Quotes
I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.

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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
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As you know, there are al-Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq.
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Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.
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I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.