Steven Berkoff (Leslie Steven Berkoff) Quotes
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
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Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
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So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
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Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
