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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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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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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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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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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The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.
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Always be listening and learning.
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The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
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What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.
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Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.
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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.
