Kathy Acker Quotes
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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.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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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.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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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.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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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.
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Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.
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I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'
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When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.
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Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
