Steven Berkoff (Leslie Steven Berkoff) Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.
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In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
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Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.
