Dorothy Allison Quotes
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
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I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
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We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
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I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.
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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
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I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
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You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
