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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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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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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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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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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I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all.
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The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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I am a monkey fan.
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There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
