Steve Hockensmith Quotes
I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
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Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.
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Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.
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I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
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I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?
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I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.
