Sigrid Nunez Quotes

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

Sigrid Nunez

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YouAdmireFictionRespondOwnSit

I lead a very conventional life.

Joan Didion

LifeLeadConventionalVery

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Amy Tan

FamilyThinkEncouragementFiction

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

AgeYouthCrystalOutDewFinds

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

Michael N. Castle

LifeSuccessBelieveRealityFocused

You have the sense of touch because you need it.

Louis B. Rosenberg

YouTouchNeedBecauseSense

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

Dolly Parton

MoneyMeEvilYouPlaySaid

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

Dean Devlin

YouRiseNowDigitalRealOut

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

Annette Bening

FamilyNatureLoveCharacterParents

I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

Annabella Sciorra

PeopleMeSecretsComfortableAlways

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

Peter Senge

AgeProgressPeopleCareGrowYou

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

Penn Jillette

ReligionSpaceDuckTalkingPoverty

We never know about anybody else's relationship and how they work - particularly the ones that work for a really, really long time. I was going to say only the people in it, but often, not even they understand how it works.

Tilda Swinton

WorkRelationshipTimePeopleLong

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