Marshall Curry Quotes
In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
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I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
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I believe in something.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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Along thy wild and willow'd shore.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
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I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
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In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable.
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When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.
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In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.
