Dana Spiotta Quotes

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Dana Spiotta

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You're nobody unless you have a gay rumor about you. I've been hit on by women from time to time, and it might simplify my life if I were gay, but no.

Meghan McCain

LifeWomenTimeMy LifeYouGay

I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline.

Matthew Walker

WalkPeopleThinkNewBecomeState

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

Michael Pollan

FoodCookingStartThinkResultWay

When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'

Jay Duplass

MeBlackGrowYouArtistNew

I was 14 when I moved into my own apartment. I was so scared. I didn't know anything.

Drew Barrymore

KnowMy OwnScaredAnythingOwn

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Dorothea Lange

EyesCultureArtistSeeingMoreSee

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

Chris Hardwick

FunPeopleHave FunGoChristmas

Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.

Bobby Schilling

BusinessStrugglePeopleThinkBring

My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.

Brie Larson

ServicePeopleFeelDreamAlways

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Auguste Rodin

NothingRediscoverInvent

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

Perry Como

FamilyDayTogetherMountainDrive

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it. So we generally throw our clothes out. I think I've been wearing this pair of pants for about two months.

Scott Kelly

WaterSpaceThinkClothesYouPants

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