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 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'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with on 'Austin & Ally;' the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I'm so happy they're in my life!
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
