John Philpot Curran Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.
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It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
