Curtis Sliwa Quotes
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
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I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
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For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.
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People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
