Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Lose

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Biography

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Like

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Living
  • Worst

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Find

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Most

• It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • She
  • Lost

• All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution
  • Capitalist
  • Catastrophe

• When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Author

• My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Place

• Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

  

  Brandon T. Jackson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Real

• Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability to shop for clothes.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Faith
  • Lost