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Katherine Dunn Quotes

The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Worms Artists Closer Northwest

When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.

Jennifer Coolidge

Feel You Living Air Breathing Whole

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Andrew Morton

Move Would Public Private Defined

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

Maxine Waters

Life Dreams Quality Child People

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

Robert Hormats

Growth Today Driving America New

Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.

Ann Callis

Great Me Chance Speak Learn Create

I enjoy tequila, which has a strange effect on people and makes parties more fun than warm white wine.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Fun People Wine Warm Enjoy White

We have to defeat them on the battlefield and in the marketplace of ideals. And PBS, I believe, owed the nation the chance to hear the moderate Muslim voices who decry terrorism and Jihadism, and they didn't give them that chance, and that's a terrible thing.

Trent Franks

Believe Chance Defeat Terrorism Give

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

Tony Dungy

Children Night Parent Call Middle

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Michael Leunig

Fear Relationship Imagination Candle

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

Culture Baseball Speak Intense Much

I came out at 17.

Chirlane McCray

Out I Came Came

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

Connie Nielsen

Humor Choices Sense Of Humor Movies