Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Successful

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Projects

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  

  Iain Banks
  • American
  • Future
  • Looking

• Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Think

• My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • Important
  • Land
  • Jews

• When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Together
  • Fashion

• I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Fun

• Any group or 'collective,' large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Small

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

  

  Jess Walter

• I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.

  

  Holliday Grainger
  • Different
  • Doctors
  • Panic

• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

  Curtis Sittenfeld