Stephen Furst (Stephen Nelson Feuerstein) Quotes
I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.
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That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.
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I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I grew up on anime and manga. That's part of who I am.
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Jesus would not be crucified today. The prophets would not be stoned. Socrates would not drink the hemlock. They would instead be banned from the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages by the sentries of establishment thinking who guard against dissent with the one weapon of mass destruction most cleverly designed to obliterate democracy: the rubber stamp.
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As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.
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I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
