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

• 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 never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • May
  • Power

• The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • World
  • Black

• The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Girl

• I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, 'Oh, you looked amazing - why didn't you keep that?' Not, 'Oh my God - I can't believe you wore that.'

  

  Blake Lively
  • God
  • Believe
  • Children

• Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

  

  Plato
  • Wealth
  • Excellence
  • Bring

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

  

  Kathy Acker