Kathy Acker Quotes

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Money
  • Man

• Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Bible
  • Constitution

• When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Man
  • You

• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Mind
  • May
  • Author

• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Home
  • Listen
  • Liking

• I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Better
  • Issue

• Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • American
  • Growing

• Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Bad
  • True

• For me, the massiveness of what I don’t know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • God
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Doubt
  • Patience
  • Have

• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Children
  • Society

• Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Great

• I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Determination

• Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

  

  David Stockman
  • Overcoming
  • Devices
  • Schemes

• I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Irish

• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • War
  • Energy
  • Support

• I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

  

  Kathy Acker