Abbey Curran Quotes
From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.
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There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
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Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.
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From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car.
