Steve Hockensmith Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
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Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.
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I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
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I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.
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I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Everybody's a nun.
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A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
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The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.
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Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
