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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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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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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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I don't know what to do with myself when it's sunny!
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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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
