Siri Hustvedt Quotes

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

Siri Hustvedt

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DepressionBrainAnxietyMedia

All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.

Jenny Han

FunMeFeelFriendsFindWant

Trump is like a Shakespearean 'fool': he seems crass because he speaks the truth.

Ann Coulter

TruthFoolSeemsBecauseLikeHe

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Andy Milonakis

ArtDeepMeaningWantKindRetarded

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

Michael Gambon

WordsPeopleWorldActingPlaySaid

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

MomMotherhoodEverythingEffect

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

Stephen Sondheim

YouChangesAudienceTemperature

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

Steven Spielberg

SurviveAlwaysBeenInterestedHow

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

BornSaviorHimselfTroubledWere

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

Derek Walcott

I AmCaribbeanAbsolutelyWriterAm

I think that every single person should play sports.

Donovan Bailey

SportsThinkPersonPlaySingle

I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

Christie Brinkley

WorkDayDanceThinkExerciseSpice

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

Chris Patten

CapitalismThinkYouMeanShould

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