Mark Steyn Quotes
Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.
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I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.
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Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.
