Dana Spiotta Quotes

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

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• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Brother
  • Doctor
  • Engineer

• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Goals
  • Diversity
  • Sales

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • High
  • Culture
  • Me

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Story
  • Daughter

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Energy
  • Team
  • Positive

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Weird
  • How

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Games
  • Rules
  • Percent

• Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

  

  John Keats
  • Kiss

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Character
  • Education

• I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • People
  • Hate
  • Pain

• I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Wrinkle

• I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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  • Writing