Katherine Dunn Quotes

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Want
  • Natural
  • Straight

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Father
  • Know

• It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• I come from a pretty strange family.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Strange

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Why
  • Me

• I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

  

  Barber Conable
  • Think
  • Way
  • Decision

• When you like something, you find time to do it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • You
  • Find

• I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Hate
  • Respect

• Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Years

• People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Believe
  • Guy

• 'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Church

• Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Song
  • Apology

• He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Great
  • She
  • Moving

• What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society

• The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Theatre

• What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Great

• I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

  

  Harry Edward Kane
  • Confidence
  • Blood
  • Wrestling

• Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

  

  Will Self
  • Political
  • Conviction
  • Activist

• One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.

  

  Elisee Reclus
  • Virtue
  • Civilization
  • Property

• I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

  

  Katherine Dunn