Cliff Curtis Quotes

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

Cliff Curtis

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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

John Mortimer

YourselfWritingRuleOnlyValidity

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Sue Monk Kidd

WorkSpiritualDeepThinkDesire

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

Sonia Sotomayor

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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

Sidney Poitier

MyselfActorBecomeOutSetHad

I don't want to push barriers myself. You go to see Joan Rivers to see barriers being pushed. You watch 'Little Britain' to see barriers being pushed.

Ronnie Corbett

MyselfPushYouGoWantSee

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Mary Cheney

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During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.

Mary Ellen Mark

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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates

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People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society.

Jonathan Raymond

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My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

Johnny Gimble

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The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

Dick Dale

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The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.

Diablo Cody

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