Steven Gaines Quotes
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.
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'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Everything comes out of what works for me.
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The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.
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When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.
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I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
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Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
