Katherine Dunn Quotes

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno

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We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.

Jochen Zeitz

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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore

GoodYouBadDareOnly

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

John Sculley

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Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

Simon Beaufoy

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I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

Tom Stoppard

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Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

Rob Halford

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To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

Rob Gronkowski

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Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.

Mary Dillon

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I'm 240, and I'm not fat.

Mirko Cro Cop

Fat

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Denis Leary

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Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

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