Curtis Armstrong Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
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I like people who try to do big things.
