Dana Spiotta Quotes
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness.
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My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
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I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.
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I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
