Valorie Curry Quotes
If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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'Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know - they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered/ We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of beign seen, or heard, even for a moment.'
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No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
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When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
