Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I am for people. I can't help it.
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I have a gruff character.
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
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The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.
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I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
