Mark Steyn Quotes
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.
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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
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Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.
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Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
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I thought if I can still be the central voice but without having an ‘I’ there, and by not having it there, it makes it easier for the reader to slip into the consciousness of the narrator. If you remove the letter ‘I’ it becomes a universal I. Everybody is the author walking down those streets while they are in the prose.
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In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
