John Curran Quotes
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I get homesick.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.
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The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.
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Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
Colson Whitehead -
You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.
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A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.
