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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There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
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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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I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
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When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No one really dug it. It was very Americana and had a lot of folk elements in it.
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With Brexit the very best deal they can get is worse than what we've got now.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
