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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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.
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There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.
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If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.
