Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish now? How long will it be stylish for? It's slightly embarrassing to admit this - because, as a novelist, I'm supposed to be observant - but I'm flummoxed by the way other women dress.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.

John Candy

ResponsibilityManMeShoppingMade

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.

John Hickenlooper

MoneySmartPeopleSmart PeopleHard

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Andy Van Slyke

YouGrand CanyonTryCanyonValleys

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.

Stormzy

CulturePeopleProblemKnowStreet

But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.

Jay Carney

InnovationCreativityPoliticsWorld

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Joss Whedon

StoryThinkDecisionsYouTelevision

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dick Durbin

PoliceNeedSafeStreetsKeepMuch

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

Drew Curtis

StartThinkYouWeakBeginGet

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

Conner Eldridge

LifeHistoryRootsDeepMy Life

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Archibald Cox

GoalsMenLawSocietyResolution

I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

Anne Hull

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I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.

Alicia Vikander

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