Katherine Dunn Quotes

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

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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I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

John Dyer

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This is the U.S.A., and it's the most glorious place to live in the world.

Megyn Kelly

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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

Matthew Arnold

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What I love about DVD is that the quality is good.

Ron Howard

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Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

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I eat death threats for breakfast!

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.

Lloyd Blankfein

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One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

Joseph Rykwert

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A lot of people know me from Instagram, and most of the concepts that I post there are my looks or my makeup. They don't know or remember that, almost every night in NYC, I am running from gig to gig and working hard.

Aquaria

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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey

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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

James Fenton

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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

Eric Holder

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