Annette Curtis Klause Quotes
My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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Doing the right thing has power.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.
