Katherine Dunn Quotes

My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.

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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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Jet Li

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You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Menachem Begin

YouCountryLandOwnYourForeign

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

John Henrik Clarke

PeopleI Have LearnedKnowDamn

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

Matt Gonzalez

JusticeMindYoungWayBecomeOut

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

Michael Bergin

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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Alva Myrdal

LearningNowBecomeNeverServe

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

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I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

Stromae

EasyWantRealBe RealThingsThem

To me, Egypt is a wonderful history, a wonderful people, and it's represented through artists like Om Kalthoum, who is considered the fourth pyramid of Egypt. She's a wonderful diva whose voice, for me, is really Egyptian.

Mona Eltahawy

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'The Big Lebowski''s soundtrack has had as much of an influence on me as the film itself. My favorite Bob Dylan song is 'The Man in Me,' which plays over the movie's opening credits as well as during the first dream sequence.

Josh Gondelman

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Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Joseph Brodsky

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