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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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.
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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 write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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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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I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.
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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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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
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We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a real thrill to meet and actually become friends with people like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. They were all working the Sands at that time... and Bill and I became... well, not close friends, but at least acquaintances where they knew us by name, and most of them just called us the righteous boys.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
