Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours.
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Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
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I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.
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When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.
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My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
