Curt Siodmak Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
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A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
