Steven Amsterdam Quotes
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
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I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
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It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
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I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
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Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.
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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
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Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
