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Katherine Dunn Quotes

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hate Book Award You Know Tell

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

Technology Losing Me Brain Want

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Andrei Codrescu

Me New New Orleans Corrupt Because

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

Andre Leon Talley

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

Family Power Money Mom Country Park

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

Robert Kiyosaki

Control Feel Risk Over Sense Even

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Robert Gottlieb

Work Nobody Call Could

When we play live, it's always been a do or die effort. And everything we've ever done has always had that approach.

Live Effort Die Play Done Always

I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.

Small Story Special Over Everything

I'm the best heavyweight outside the world champions, and let's not forget that.

Best World Champions Forget Outside

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

Life Dog Enthusiasm Shame No Sense

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

Myself Me Think Picture Feel More

My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.

Work Good Focus Ground Being Really

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