Curt Weldon Quotes
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
