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
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Edouard Manet -
I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
Adam G. Sevani -
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.
Pat Cadigan -
I want to just be what kids believe in.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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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.
Aaron Lazar -
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
Victor Papanek -
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles -
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.
Samuel Barnett -
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.
Maelle Gavet -
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.
Nadine Velazquez
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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.
Ziggy Marley -
I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
Rachel Brosnahan -
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.
Oliver Stone -
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Personally, I'd prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher -
I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
In a flash order transaction, buy or sell orders are shown to a collection of high-frequency traders for just 30 milliseconds before they are routed to everyone else. They are widely considered to give the few investors with access to the technology an unfair advantage, even by some of the marketplaces that offer the flash orders for a fee.
Charles Duhigg -
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