Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.Curtis Sittenfeld
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
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Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
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If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme.
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Bow before him, all creation!Mortals, own the God of love!Seek him high the stars above,-Yonder is his habitation!
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
Curtis Sittenfeld
