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Dana Spiotta Quotes

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Me Why Mean Aunt Buy

If you have a bad experience on the air, you don't think you've done your job, or you have an embarrassing moment. I guarantee you'll work harder the next time not to let it happen again.

Work Time Moment Experience Job You

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Life Family Time Road Sitting Right

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Daily Discipline Me Journal Write

If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in the window, a Bat-symbol next to it, and a dragon under the eaves, I am already inside.

I Am Window Superman Will Inside Am

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Life Ego Forward Universe Say Own

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

Uniform Will Never Forever Wear

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Creek Teenagers Who Like Era Tiny

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Me Cool Small Thought Because Get

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

Douglas Coupland

Fun Brain You Look Back Nobody

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

Job Acting Trouble Never First Out

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

You Will Matter

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

Music Age Hope Better Want Fans

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