Curtis Joseph Quotes
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
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If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.
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I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
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So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
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I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
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I cry at movies.
