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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A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.
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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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When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
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I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
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The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
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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
