Katherine Dunn Quotes
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I don't like to look typical.
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If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.
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Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 states out there that are laboratories of democracy. Why are we not empowering the states to find solutions to our problems, particularly health care, as opposed to looking to a one-size-fits-all solution from Washington, D.C.? That puzzles even me.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
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I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
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I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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I just feel like I aint never did nothing foul in the game. My ghetto report card has always been straight A's across the board. So I said let me go ahead and name this "My Ghetto Report Card," and I'm touching down on all 4 angles of the game you smell me? I'm touching it from all basis. The album aint banana's, it's coconuts.
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Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
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I define success by personal growth; if you don’t continue to grow, you can’t continue to succeed.
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I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.
