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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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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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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Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.
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The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.
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It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.
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We have the greatest fans in the world, and our growth has been so organic. It's online; it's out at the shows. It's a big family, and they know we're going to do our best, and we know they're going to give it their best.
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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.
