Dana Spiotta Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.
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I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
