David Steinberg Quotes
The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I got no hate in me.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
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I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
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I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
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I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.
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The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
