C. Z. Guest Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
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I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I wouldn't just write full time. It's such a part of my life, and in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. It's almost, to me, like breathing. I don't think about whether I like it or not.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
