Katherine Dunn Quotes

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Katherine Dunn

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• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

  E. L. James
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Everyday

• It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Learn
  • Doors

• They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Service

• Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Things
  • Down
  • Therapy

• When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Africa
  • Meeting

• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Future
  • Limits

• I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Work
  • Together
  • Soul

• Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Way
  • Emotion
  • Anger

• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Joy
  • Distress

• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reality
  • Air
  • Human

• The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Energy

• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Theatre

• I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.

  

  Nate Diaz

• … I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15' (or 17'!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Hate

• I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Mind
  • Clock

• It's very easy for people to put out music.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Music

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Theatre

• The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Good
  • Real
  • True

• I feel like any actor should always be thinking about how to serve the story. The thing to be cautious of is trying to make too much of your 'moment,' or whatever. The story is a lot bigger than you, and you're there to help it along.

  

  Melanie Lynskey
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Help

• No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • History
  • Purpose

• How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Hate
  • Dedicated
  • Conformity

• This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

  

  Katherine Dunn