Dana Spiotta Quotes
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.Dana Spiotta
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn -
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing -
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
Bayard Taylor -
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
J. D. Vance -
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
Kate Beckinsale -
I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
Gary Ross -
Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn -
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn -
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
Taylor Swift -
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt -
I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
Rachele Brooke Smith -
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
G. Edward Griffin -
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Barbara Mertz -
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer -
They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
Jack Kilby -
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Manuel Puig -
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta