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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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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In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.
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It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.
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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.
