Katherine Dunn Quotes

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

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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Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Jerry Saltz

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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Jessica Savitch

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I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Jennifer McMahon

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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

John Major

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My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

John Hodgman

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I'm kind of living a Bruce Wayne life and then morphing into Batman, but I'm glad now Batman comes out during the day. That's kind of like how drag was: we were called upon at night to make people smile and laugh and clap.

Alyssa Edwards

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At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.

Shy Glizzy

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I do look better on TV. In real life, I look scruffy and pale, and I get the worst kind of recognition... I get the 'Haven't we met somewhere before?' I suggest it might be because I'm on the telly, and they say, 'No, it's definitely not that. Wasn't it at so-and-so's party?'

Tom Ward

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Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Mike Royko

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The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.

Marvin Ammori

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My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.

Mohit Chauhan

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The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

Michael Mandelbaum

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