Steve Stockman (Stephen Ernest Stockman) Quotes
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result
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An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
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Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.
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I was invincible. I believed all my problems were gone and I finally made it, that L.A. was my answer to everything.
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Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.
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There's nothing like volunteers who believe in a candidate and a cause.
