Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn't do that for my films because that's something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature we find enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
