Richard Curtis Quotes

#1. I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

Talulah Riley

#2. I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.

Susanne Bier

#3. Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!"
~ Richard Curtis ~

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#4. The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Eric Fellner

#5. It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

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#6. Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word ... nothing actually happens.

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#7. I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

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#8. Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

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#9. Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

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#10. It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

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#11. Baldrick, we are about as similar as two ... dis-similar things in a pod!

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#12. We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

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#13. You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

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#14. Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.

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#15. I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

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#16. No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

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#17. I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

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#18. The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

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#19. Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

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#20. The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get ...

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#21. I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.

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#22. We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

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#23. Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?
Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

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#24. I have a cunning plan.

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#25. Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

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#26. It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.

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#27. You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

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#28. Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

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#29. The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

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#30. We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

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#31. I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

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#32. Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.)
My magnificent octopus.

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#33. We're all travelling through time together, everyday of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

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#34. We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

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#35. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.

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