Curtis W. Fentress Quotes
People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
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People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.
