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 was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'
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That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence - hard work.
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“It certainly was a most beautiful insect. It was pale blue underneath; but its back was glossy black with huge red spots on it.”
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.
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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
Curtis Sittenfeld
