Steven Bochco (Steven Ronald Bochco) Quotes
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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We’re one team. One American family. When any member of our family is suffering, we’ve got to be there for each other. ... We have to keep on uniting as one team. As one people. As one nation.
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Som-Som would later learn that the girl's name was Book. Ambiguous and suggestive sentences swirled out from the maroon bud of her nipple. Verses of elegant and cryptic passion followed the orbit of her left eye. Her fingers dripped with poetry.
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I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
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Anything can happen when people run for office.
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I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
