Kate Orff Quotes
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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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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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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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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Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.
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I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.
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Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.
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The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
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I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.
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My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.
