Michael Cunningham Quotes

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Michael Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 6, 1952

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GreatSchoolBookHigh SchoolHigh

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

Jil Sander

HopeDesignWillSoundSpreadMay

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

John Banville

RomanticHopeless19th-Century

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

LifeFuturePastDeathMindBelieve

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

Steven Spielberg

FriendTechnologyBestWalkBusy

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

Sufjan Stevens

MusicCultureWorldThinkLanguage

To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.

Rob Reiner

FunMeWorryYouActingParty

Pop was great fun.

Delta Goodrem

GreatFunPopGreat Fun

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

Alicia Keys

PeopleMeBelieveYouDownWill

You can only control your own destiny.

Scott Coker

ControlDestinyYouOwnOnlyYour

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

Rick Scott

TryingWillMindsKeepReadVoters

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

Ricky Gervais

LifeAttitudeCharacterComedyJokes

My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a few times to stop the weeping.

Richard Burton

AgeSisterStopSheYoungestFew

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