Drew Curtis Quotes
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.
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What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.
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Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.
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Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
