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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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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If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
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I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.
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There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
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I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
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If you are a success, you can take care of people; you can give a lot to your community.
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
