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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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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The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
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I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.
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Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
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There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.
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There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
