Karyn Kusama Quotes

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

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• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • End
  • Building

• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Police
  • Video
  • Surveillance

• Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • New
  • Limits
  • Mature

• Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Hard

• 'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Help
  • Unique

• If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Unknown
  • Obvious

• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Job
  • Want
  • Know

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Knowing
  • Finding

• With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Good
  • Football
  • Growth

• The 'interface' of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. (p. 161)

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

  

  Meagan Tandy

• Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Dad

• When I dine with CEOs at Michael's in New York or Spago in L.A., we score the best tables. On my own, I wind up seated near the kitchen doors.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Kitchen

• When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.

  

  Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Kitchen