Curtis Armstrong Quotes
There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
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I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in another stage of civilization there would certainly have been burnings at stake.
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There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
