Kate Orff Quotes
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
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When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
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Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
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I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
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I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
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Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'
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Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.
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All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.
