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Katherine Dunn Quotes

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

Topics

Death Medical Research Everyday

It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

Work Love Good Marriage Live Parent

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

Learning Me Slow Actor Curve Been

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

Robert Jay Lifton

Time Training War New York City New

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.

Red Me Crazy Drive Mail Bubbles

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

Character Time People Green Start

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Education Honesty Children Beginning

In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway, the linkage between people, not the separation. And that's the history of Canada: our rivers and lakes were our highways.

John Ralston Saul

History People Tradition Canada Glue

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

Steve Guttenberg

Good You Known A Good Thing Thing

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Famous Powerful Celebrity Quite

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Believe I Believe Right Mrs Emphasis

I'll be so excited to take my daughter to her first fashion show, but I think, for her, it's best to wait until she's old enough to appreciate it. Or, at least, until she can pronounce the designer's names!

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Daughter Best Wait Fashion Think

To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

Good Day Me Stand Up Stand You

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