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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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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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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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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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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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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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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Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.
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We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
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I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.
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I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
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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.
