Curt Schilling Quotes

I loved fantasy role play.

Curt Schilling

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• We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Beach
  • Guess
  • Beach Boys

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Body
  • My Life

• As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Question
  • Choice
  • Learned

• I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Aging

• Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Different
  • Family
  • Black

• You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • You
  • Forever
  • Someone

• But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Way
  • Education
  • Like

• I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
  • Imagination
  • Challenge

• I do a lot of writing about my family.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Lot

• I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Career

• Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Slavery

• p. 17

  

  W. Edwards Deming

• The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Live
  • Die
  • Singing

• To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

  

  John Adams
  • Knowledge

• 'Time was,' he said, 'when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Light
  • Lost

• I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Men
  • Country
  • Mind

• Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie O'Donnell was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Audience

• I loved fantasy role play.

  

  Curt Schilling