Don DeLillo Quotes

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

Don DeLillo

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Trying
  • Been
  • Washington

• Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Around
  • Ever
  • Merle Haggard

• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • End
  • Destroy

• Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • May
  • Power
  • Silence

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

  

  Watt Key
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Laughed
  • Comedies
  • Our

• New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

  

  Joseph O'Neill
  • Place
  • New York
  • Origin

• Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I feel young every day.

  

  Jennifer Aniston

• My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Childhood

• Put no more than three messages on a lemonade stand. You have to describe what your product is, why it's the best, and how much it is. Don't be drawing turtles and flowers and footballs all over it, distracting people. Keep it clean.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Why
  • Drawing

• I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • American
  • Magic