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

• Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • War
  • Moral
  • United States

• I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

  

  Og Mandino
  • World

• Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Good
  • Important
  • Feeling

• People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Time

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

  

  Kathy Acker