Mark Steyn Quotes
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.
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...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
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The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
