Sigrid Nunez Quotes
You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
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I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.
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It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
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When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to be a musician, because of that fact.
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I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
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You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.
