Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.Curtis Sittenfeld
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
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When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
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I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.
Curtis Sittenfeld
