Karyn Kusama Quotes

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

Karyn Kusama

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• I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Proud
  • Brand
  • British

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Black

• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Life
  • Women
  • May

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Different
  • Problem

• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Myself
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Want
  • Voice

• I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Remember
  • Friend
  • Best

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • World
  • Long
  • Remember

• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Honest
  • Politician

• I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Know
  • Lyrics
  • Opera

• One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Book

• I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Western
  • Sergio Leone Films
  • Cat Ballou

• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  

  Anne Sullivan Macy
  • Children
  • Guidance
  • Instruction

• In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to feel that science is, in the fullest sense, a ministry of good to all, not the private possession and luxury of a few, that it is the best expression of human intelligence and not the abracadabra of a school, that it is a guiding light and not a dazzling fog.

  

  William Jay Youmans
  • School
  • Intelligent
  • Expression

• To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • World

• A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

  

  Karyn Kusama