Katherine Dunn Quotes
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
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Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
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It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
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Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.
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'Brutality!' cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. 'Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.'
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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
