Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.Curtis Sittenfeld
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Broadway is really my life.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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My health is fine.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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Size is a double-edged sword with great advantages and disadvantages..
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Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."
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I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
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We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.
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You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
Curtis Sittenfeld
