Curtis Armstrong Quotes
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
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Mental note if you make it to forty remember on how all those fucks treated her. Stop being an asshole while you're still young.
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Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.
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I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
