Steven Bochco (Steven Ronald Bochco) Quotes
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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I don't care how somebody looks at me or their feelings. I know how I am.
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I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
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If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
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Imagery is like music.
