Cliff Curtis Quotes
As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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We're all controlled neurotics.
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If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.
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I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
