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Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1975

Topics

I Am Think Say First Two Pretty

Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.

Experience New York People Small You

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Focus People You Important Difficult

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Community People Mystery Move Begins

A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.

Stephanie Coontz

Legal Motivation Divorce System Fact

Just a tiny bit of effort leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I just go up the stairs to my room, and I feel tired.

Effort Tired Me Feel Stairs Go

Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work.

Work Child Ideas Thoughts Building

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Advertising Kind Expensive Buy Us

I'm a real home girl.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

Myself Day Reach Problem Find Kind

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

Character Myself Man Thought Actor

With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.

Antoine Griezmann

Work Hard Work Effort You Achieve

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

William H. Seward

Constitution Hand Principle Submit

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