Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes

I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Morning
  • Feel

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Fake

• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Luck

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Angry
  • Humor

• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Writing
  • History
  • Death

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Fashion

• Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • People
  • Music
  • Free

• I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Always
  • Film
  • Go

• Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Dance

• Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

  

  George Osborne
  • Taken
  • Criticism

• I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • History
  • Road