Steve Southerland (William Steve Southerland II) Quotes
I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
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I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
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The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.
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The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
