Stephen Morris Quotes
Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
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Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
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I loved all sports, and New York's a pretty good sports town, and the Giants - I don't know why we chose the Giants over the Jets, but we chose the Giants.
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Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
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'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.
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Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
