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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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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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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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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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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.
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My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'
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At my shows, I've been fortunate to see every walk of life.
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I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.
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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
