Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.Curtis Sittenfeld
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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I can't die but once.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.
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Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.
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Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
Curtis Sittenfeld
