Katherine Dunn Quotes

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

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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I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

Aneurin Barnard

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When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.

John Rocha

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I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

Amy Seimetz

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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

John Pople

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I don't want to sound like anyone.

Stefflon Don

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With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

Trent Reznor

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Tony Campolo

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President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

Tom Perez

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I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

Roger Rees

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I don't want anyone controlling me.

Rodrigo Duterte

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