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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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'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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I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.
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The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
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People think that models don't eat. We do eat. Or at least I do. I just work really hard to stay in shape.
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
