Steve Rushin Quotes
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
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Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.
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There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
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I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.
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If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.
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I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.
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It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
