David Steinberg Quotes
Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.
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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
