Stephen Furst (Stephen Nelson Feuerstein) Quotes
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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I regret all of my books.
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Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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I'm a really bad twerker - I still haven't figured out how to do it. I actually hurt my back one day. I woke up the next morning, and my back was completely tweaked out... from twerking.
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It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
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One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.
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Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.
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I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.
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It was obvious there would be no return to 'normality.' The economy wouldn't be coming back. Globalism was over. The politicians and generals were failing to pull things together at the center. We would not be returning to Boston. The computer industry, in which so many hopes had been vested, was fading into history.
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I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
