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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Character Empathy Sympathy Easy Hard

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

John Lahr

Life Mind Win Opinion Thought Know

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

Amanda Peet

Camera Phone Use Imbecile

I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do.

Roger McGuinn

Blue Think Internet Late Play Kind

I try to harmonize and sing every moment that I can.

Mary Lambert

Moment I Can Try Sing Every

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Joyce Carol Oates

Good Write Hard Something Poorly

Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

Josh Hartnett

Life Love Hope Love Is Believe You

No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It's an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.

Chrissy Teigen

Mother Women Challenge Support Child

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Alone Together Being Alone People

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

Boyd Holbrook

Funny Impossible American You Play

The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.

Antonio Conte

Me Start Stronger Lose Defeat Know

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Wynton Marsalis

Style Eye Color Interesting Artist

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagoras

Freedom Men Laws Necessary Fit Soon