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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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.
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'I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.'
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My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.
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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.
