Ken Curtis Quotes
In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
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I get so many different types of people emailing me how much my story impacts them. Hearing that inspires me every day to keep going and going.
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I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.
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In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.
