Charlotte Curtis Quotes
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.
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If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
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I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
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It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
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In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain.
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
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No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.
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Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.
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Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.
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I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
