Steve Valentine Quotes
I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.
Quotes to Explore
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
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Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
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Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
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Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.
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This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.
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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
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Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to.
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I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.
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While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
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There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
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People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
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I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.
