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Kathy Acker Quotes

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kathy Acker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 18, 1947 - November 30, 1997

Topics

Think Country Dangerous Way More

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

Jim Crace

Space House Inside Strengths Without

When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

Jenny Lewis

Service Woman Bed Sleeping First

It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'

Max Greenfield

Crazy Genius You Go Letters She

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Ann Patchett

Writing Book Think Will Write Sell

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Tom Hooper

Childhood Wife World Know Said Nice

I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks.

Julia Davis

Finance Singing Year Three Tried

I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.

Lisa Ling

Enough Run Build Never Muscle Big

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

Joss Whedon

Morning Night You Early Late Jokes

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Janine Turner

Ego Direction Go Desire Let Go His

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

Jon Lovitz

Yourself People Think You Be True

It's never been easy for me to express how I feel in situations where I know I have something to lose.

Chelsea Lankes

Me Feel Easy Lose Know Never

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

Colson Whitehead

Work Culture Me Think American Kids