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 purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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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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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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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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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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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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The phrase 'pumped up kicks,' man, I was excited when I came up with that.
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A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.
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If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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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.
