Kat Dahlia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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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.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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The devil made me do it.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
