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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I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob.
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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
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I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it meant more women for me! I don't know what everyone's problem with it is. I wish everyone was gay! That's always the way I thought about it. I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn't they?
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Work is life. Work is opportunity.
