Steve McQueen (Terence Steven McQueen) Quotes
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.
