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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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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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'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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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
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This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
