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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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.
