Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.
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The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.
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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
