Catie Curtis Quotes
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.
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You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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I was always more interested in asking people about themselves than I was telling them about me.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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I definitely want to go the route of feature films.
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You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
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Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Deva are a team that you always want to be a part of.
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We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
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It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
