Steve Burns (Steven Michael Burns) Quotes
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
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What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.
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It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.
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If you just say nothing, there is no way they can make you talk.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
