K. W. Jeter Quotes

Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains.

K. W. Jeter

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• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

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• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

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• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

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• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

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• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

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• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

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• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

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• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

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• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

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• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

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• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

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• Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

  

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• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

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• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  

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• When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

  

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• One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

  

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• It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.'

  

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• It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

  

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• In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.

  

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• For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.'

  

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• My first job is to entertain, but if, while you're enjoying, you start to question something you never thought about before or empathize with, relate to, love someone you only thought of as 'other' once upon a time - how awesome is that.

  

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• Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains.

  

  K. W. Jeter
  • Life
  • Die
  • Beating