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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I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.
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I don't have any problems getting people to open up.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
