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.
Daniel Baldwin -
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Patrick Lencioni -
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.
Carli Lloyd -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky -
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
Sam Heughan
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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?
Saint Augustine -
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake -
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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.'
Candace Bushnell -
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
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.
W. H. Davies -
It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane -
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
Laila Ali -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
Gary Sheffield
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A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
Pankaj Mishra -
I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.
Bob Lilly -
People ask all the time, 'What's he done with his life?' ... He's enjoyed it.
Don Sutton -
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu -
I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
Taliesin -
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