Marshall Curry Quotes
I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I look formidable.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.
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I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.
