Steve Hockensmith Quotes
I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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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 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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Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
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I like to fish when it's not too hot.
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Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
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Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
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The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
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Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'
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I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.
