Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.Curtis Sittenfeld
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
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When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising - very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn't use the word 'socialist' at all because everybody in the state knows that I am that.
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I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
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Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
Curtis Sittenfeld
