Siri Hustvedt Quotes

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Siri Hustvedt

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DreamsGivingFallGiving UpUp

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Jesmyn Ward

FatherCommunityMoneyMenBrother

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

ChildMomSheAlwaysSingleBeen

The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

John Katzman

TechnologyGreatServiceQualityNow

Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.

Ann Maxwell

WomenProgressCrimeBedroomFiction

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

TodayFootballTeamLiteratureRadio

Obligations may be universal or particular.

Tom G. Palmer

MayUniversalObligationsParticular

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

Mike Quigley

PowerTimeGunWashingtonBecome

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

Jason Statham

GoodWritingActionYouSkillWant

If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.

Bonnie Hammer

BestBackI CanSayMeanFollow

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

Austan Goolsbee

SurviveWashingtonKindStarting

Sharing our experience with pregnancy was incredibly important because we realized how challenging and difficult that was, and there are really dark moments where you think you're alone.

Priscilla Chan

EducationPowerParentsBelieved

My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.

Lesley Nicol

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