Steven Amsterdam Quotes
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
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Pair up in threes.
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
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If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
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Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
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We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
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We need to make sure everything was above-board, ... It's an important business, an important sector of our economy and we can't function without that. We need to make sure other types of companies aren't facing that same type of problem.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
