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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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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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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People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I got into the right frame of mind that I will serve my country. I didn't volunteer to do it, but they've asked me, so that's what I'll do.
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They brought the house up-to-date and did it in a beautiful way.
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I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.
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If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.