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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1955

Topics

Life Sleep Long Nobody Sides Rhythm

I don't think I've ever been starstruck because they're just, you know... everybody's a person; we all come and go the same way.

Joanna Krupa

Think You Person Come And Go Know

There's no such thing as altruism.

Andrew Tobias

Altruism Thing

When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

Jeff Greenfield

Mother Son Dinner You Debate Follow

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

Stana Katic

Building Think Career Relationships

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Rosamund Pike

Work Education Nature Best Walk You

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

Mike Birbiglia

Father Path Team Growing Up You

I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

Lucas Till

Discipline Athletics Other Had

Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.

Juergen Teller

Mother Stand Doing Try Knowing She

Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell you what sucks. For early feedback, that's more important than professional editorial skill. Most people know what sucks.

Douglas Brunt

Friend People Sibling You Early

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

Donald Wolfit

Performance Say Seen Deliberately

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

Brian Ferneyhough

New Creation Respond Exhaustion Seem

The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.

Bret Stephens

American America Accept Everyone