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Richard Curtis Biography

Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director, who was born in New Zealand to Australian parents. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films including Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), and About Time (2013). He is also known for having co-written hit sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and The Vicar of Dibley. He is also the co-founder of the British charity Comic Relief with Sir Lenny Henry. He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011).

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The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

Free Speech, Great Things, Internet, Rules, Thing

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

Likes, People, Profound, Sense, Ugliness

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.

Book, Books, People, Send, Want

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

Cat, Gave, Horse, Man, Men, Witchcraft

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.

Author, Book, Franchises, Media, Selling, Writing

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.

Average, Believe, Eye, Look, Wonders, World

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

Call, Heaven, Humility, Ideas, Project

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.

Anxiety, Depressing, Real, Uncertainty, Wtc

Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

Stars, Character, Eye, Swirling, Nature, Roar

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.

Argument, Bob, Compassion, People, Two

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.

Book, Directly, Publishers, Selling, Turn, Turns

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.

Keys, Mistake, Moving, Proven, Submissions, Writers

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I. . . I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

Crush, Days, Forever, Head, Mistake, Months

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.

Believe, Book, Candor, Make, Naive

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

Implementing, Proven, Quality, Risk, Technology