Top 92 Dutton Quotes
#1. I never lie, Mrs. Dutton. I'm a pathological truth-teller.
Lauren Groff
#2. My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
Denis Dutton
#3. It doesn't really matter if I am a prisoner of your will so long as I am not a prisoner of mine. christopher dutton
Christopher Dutton
#4. Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.
Christopher Bram
#5. Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.
Denis Dutton
#6. So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment where I thought to myself, Oh, I need to write about Margaret Cavendish. She just kept taking over the book I thought I was writing.
Danielle Dutton
#7. I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
Danielle Dutton
#8. Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.
Kevin Dutton
#9. Yet how hard it is to point to a moment. To say: there, in that moment, I changed.
Danielle Dutton
#10. Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
Charles S. Dutton
#11. I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.
Danielle Dutton
#12. I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything I've left out. I feel like all the major movements of her life are there.
Danielle Dutton
#16. I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'
Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its glittering bridges and orangeries, even if the birthplace of ballet.
'I had rather been a meteor, than a star in a crowd.
Danielle Dutton
#17. I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
Charles S. Dutton
#18. For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.
Charles S. Dutton
#19. Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers
a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others
are also shared by politicians and world leaders.
Kevin Dutton
#22. I slept and saw God's forge in frost. Its hearth was quelled, and as it cooled so swooned the verdancy it kept above. In slumber it grew a thick winter skin, white as bedsheets. In their folds the waker dreamt, her breath as steam, her touch as hot as iron, forgotten in the fire.
Andrew Hussie
#24. I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
Charles S. Dutton
#25. Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking of Margaret near the end of her life, and that was the voice I heard for her.
Danielle Dutton
#26. So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.
Thomas Dutton
#27. The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.
Vida Dutton Scudder
#29. If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.
Christopher Dutton
#30. Ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness (living in the moment), and action. Who wouldn't, at certain points in their lives, benefit from kicking one or two of them up a notch? What was important was being able to turn them back down.
Kevin Dutton
#31. First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
Charles S. Dutton
#33. It was indescribable what she wanted. She was restless. She wanted to work. She wanted to be thirty people. She wanted to wear a cap of pearls and a coat of bright blue diamonds. To live as nature does, in many ages, in many brains
Danielle Dutton
#34. College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago," Konrath reports.
Kevin Dutton
#35. Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
Denis Dutton
#36. It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.
Danielle Dutton
#37. I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.
Denis Dutton
#38. An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
Vida Dutton Scudder
#39. Jamie's eyes narrow. 'I ain't pulling over for no one.' he shoots back. 'But if you fancy a ride, hop in.
Kevin Dutton
#40. It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.
Denis Dutton
#41. Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.
Christopher Dutton
#42. The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends.
Geoffrey Dutton
#43. If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.
Kevin Dutton
#45. Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.
Vida Dutton Scudder
#46. With his immaculately coiffured blond locks and his impeccable cut-glass accent, he looks, and sounds, like a dab hand. 'People are as nice as you make them,' he enunciates. 'Which gives you a heck of a lot of power over them, of course.
Kevin Dutton
#47. I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
Charles S. Dutton
#48. Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question ...
Christopher Dutton
#49. Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.
Christopher Dutton
#50. Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
Kevin Dutton
#51. [Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.
Denis Dutton
#52. It's easy to forget that anything is possible with these guys. That there really are no limits.
Kevin Dutton
#53. Or, as they're commonly referred to, the "Big Five.
Kevin Dutton
#54. Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one's demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.
Kevin Dutton
#55. In 2005, the Global Language Monitor - a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests - issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top
Kevin Dutton
#56. There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.
Danielle Dutton
#57. What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage, ... Otherwise it was impossible.
Charles S. Dutton
#58. You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books
Geoffrey Dutton
#59. Theta waves are associated with drowsy, meditative, or sleeping states. Yet in psychopaths, they occur during normal waking states, even sometimes during states of increased arousal.
Kevin Dutton
#61. The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation
Dennis Dutton
#62. Yet why must grammar be like a prison for the mind? Might not language be as a closet full of gowns? Of a generally similar cut, with a hole for the head and neck to pass, but filled with difference and a variety of trimmings so that we don't grow bored?
Danielle Dutton
#63. Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love ... or ourselves.
Christopher Dutton
#64. The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?
Kevin Dutton
#65. What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?
Kevin Dutton
#66. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.
Denis Dutton
#68. Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance.
Denis Dutton
#69. It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was.
Danielle Dutton
#70. The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.
Denis Dutton
#71. The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
Denis Dutton
#72. I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of weight and power in them.
Danielle Dutton
#73. If you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right
Kevin Dutton
#74. Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure.
Kevin Dutton
#75. I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
Denis Dutton
#76. Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.
Kevin Dutton
#78. The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
Charles S. Dutton
#79. Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.
Kevin Dutton
#80. These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality
Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness.
Kevin Dutton
#81. I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's
Dave Dutton
#82. As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.
Danielle Dutton
#83. This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
Charles S. Dutton
#85. I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.
Denis Dutton
#86. Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
Charles S. Dutton
#88. Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
Charles S. Dutton
#89. And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
Charles S. Dutton
#90. Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from?
Dave Dutton
#91. I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.
Danielle Dutton
#92. I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about the process for my own book than I might otherwise be.
Danielle Dutton
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