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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
— Jeff Bezos
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Intelligence is a moral category.
— Theodor Adorno
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
— Theodor Adorno
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
— Rita Mae Brown
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better…
— Dave Brubeck
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I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say…
— Steve Carell
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I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw…
— John Carpenter
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
— Noam Chomsky
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The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other…
— Noam Chomsky
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I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't…
— George Clooney
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If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To…
— Diablo Cody
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I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
— Marina Abramovic
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