Katherine Dunn Quotes
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
