Katherine Dunn Quotes
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
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You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
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I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.
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To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
