Marshall Curry Quotes
When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
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When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.
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I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.
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The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
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When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
