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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Topics

Hope Reputation Build See Writer

I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my life, luckier than almost anybody on this planet. And whenever I ran into challenges, my parents did everything they could so that I could maximize my own potential.

Joe Kennedy III

Life Parents Challenges Potential

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

Robert Richardson

Vision Balance Ego Finding Career

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Money Management Lawyers Games Out

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Great Child Feel Know Become Never

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

Selfish You Working Somebody Percent

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'

Business Me Better You Lose I Can

Perhaps a young boy or girl, after watching my video, can go, 'Maybe I don't have to be embarrassed. Maybe I can come out at school, maybe I can tell my best friend... and maybe I don't have to be afraid anymore.'

Friend Girl Best School Best Friend

I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics.

Age I Am Someone Young Who Fan

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Love Marriage Long Jump Way Minds

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Family Depression Sides Both Sides

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

Health Food Walls Space People

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

Courtney A. Kemp

Women Character Experience Man Play

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