Steve Breen (Stephen Paul Breen) Quotes
Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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I want to carry a really great role in a great film.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
