Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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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.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
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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.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.
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When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
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I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.
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I told him, 'I want you to call them right. Don't call them like you see them,'
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Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
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It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
Curtis Sittenfeld
