Dana Spiotta Quotes
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
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And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
