Katherine Dunn Quotes

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Inside

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Child
  • Interest
  • Labor

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Fun
  • Human
  • Emotion

• I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Got

• I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Father

• There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Money
  • Support
  • Health

• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Personality

• My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

  

  Kevin Maurice Johnson
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal riverFor that some melancholic, distracted manHath drown'd himself in 't.

  

  John Webster
  • May

• A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Hope