Katherine Dunn Quotes

She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.

Katherine Dunn

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Trust

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Want
  • You
  • Audience

• I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Try
  • Week
  • Pressure

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Constitution

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Look

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Political
  • Funny

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Remember
  • Look
  • Act

• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Speak
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Hope
  • Fear

• Problems are the price you pay for progress.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Progress

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals—black and white—but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.

  

  Jayne Mansfield
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Needs
  • Atheism

• She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Progress
  • Fearless
  • Suspicious