Steve Southerland (William Steve Southerland II) Quotes
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
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The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.
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Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.
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Work is life. Work is opportunity.
