Mark Steyn Quotes
I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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The devil made me do it.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean? If you're in love with your wife you have to go in there with blind faith. You have to support everything. And with your kids, you have to believe that you're doing something that has higher purpose; even though you don't have any evidence that that's the way it's going to turn out.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
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A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
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I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.
