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
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
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.
-
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
-
I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
-
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.
-
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
-
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
-
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
-
If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
-
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.
-
I can't die but once.
-
If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
-
When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
-
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.
-
Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.
-
Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.
-
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
-
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.
-
Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
-
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
-
No, it's not healed. It happened in Sochi and it's been going on and off all season. It's been bugging me throughout my entire Grand Prix season. Coming here, my foot was bothering me. I knew when to push my foot and when not to. I know that it was all in my head. I knew if I didn't think about it too much, it wouldn't bother me too much. But it's been getting better. Still not fully healed but it's getting much better than it has been.
-
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
