Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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We all work for the president, and we all will ultimately follow his direction.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.
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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
Curtis Sittenfeld
