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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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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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
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The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The entrepreneurial heroes of the Valley are accessible to many people.
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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
