Katherine Dunn Quotes
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I was overwhelmed when people started to know who I was.
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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.
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Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
