Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

In 2013, before the publication of my fourth novel, I met with a stylist at Nordstrom. Since then, I've rarely shopped for 'event clothes' on my own. I usually do it with my sisters or a friend; if I'm alone, I take pictures of myself in the dressing room and text them to my sisters.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

John Lewis

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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Maureen O'Hara

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Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.

Anita Elberse

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I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

Jeff Kinney

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I am an openly proud gay man.

Michael Sam

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And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

Mitch McConnell

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People have a right to criticize.

Luciano Pavarotti

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Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

Bob McDonnell

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But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

Willie Nelson

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I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Picabo Street

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My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

Petra Stunt

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I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

Shay Mitchell

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