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Katherine Dunn Quotes

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Small Doing Early Small Town Labor

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

Joel Embiid

Step Me Free Line Going Some

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

John Howe

Work Ideas You Sometimes Years Take

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

Angelique Kerber

Game Hands Go Know Go For It Take

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

Jeff Hardy

Life Fear Time Best Day Bike

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

Steven Price

Time Growing Up Start Loved You Way

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Roger Ebert

People Fame True Will Anything Seem

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

Robert Webb

People Dinner Party Say Fantasy Get

As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.

Joshua Bell

Start You House White Play Know

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

Joseph Fiennes

Fun Joy Have Fun You Know Going

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

Don Rickles

Life Home You Person Go Navy

I always wanted to see why Captain America was on this team of Avengers. He's got to have a reason - he can't just be really fast and punch really hard.

Chris Evans

Team America Fast Why Captain See

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Brian Posehn

You Complaining Hear Jam About