Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.
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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.
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I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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'Why are you quitting?''Sick of my job.''Because what you were doing was morally bad?' suggested the voice.'Because it wasn’t getting anybody anywhere. Because it was getting everybody nowhere.''Because it was evil?' insisted the voice.'Because it was pointless.'
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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
