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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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again.
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Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
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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.
