Katherine Dunn Quotes
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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My childhood was appalling.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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It's very American, making a lot of money.
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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
