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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Art Words Me Create Build

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Small Things Small Think Details Try

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

John C. Mather

Work Team Challenges Blessed NASA

In entertainment, if you have a message in a film, no one wants to be spoon-fed the message. No one wants to be told how to feel. At least, I don't.

Jermaine Fowler

Feel You Entertainment Film Message

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Maya Angelou

Mother Cooking Me Pork Like Roast

Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

John Tiffany

Space Theatre Story Eat Breath Up

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

Sparky Anderson

God Fun You Touch Way Pitching

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Steven Pinker

World Reality Interesting Photography

I never wanted my grandmother to leave my side.

Tori Bowie

Grandmother Never Leave Side Wanted

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Michael O'Donoghue

People Laugh Comedy Making Lowest

The king reigns but does not govern.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

King Govern Does Reigns

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Joseph Beuys

Life Positive Future Society Start

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Serj Tankian

Challenge Yourself Writing Song You