Steven Michael Quezadaun Quotes
I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
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Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
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I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.
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I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
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Film has its own innate poetry.
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
