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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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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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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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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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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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
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It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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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.
