Kathy Acker Quotes
At a certain point I realized that the 'I' doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the 'I' doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
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My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
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I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'
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It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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At a certain point I realized that the 'I' doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the 'I' doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one.
