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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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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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.
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I try not to get too self-absorbed.
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I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.
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I'm a mild-mannered person.
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It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.
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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.
