Mattie Stepanek Quotes
I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?
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I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'
