Alan Curbishley Quotes
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute.
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I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.
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Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.
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The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
