Steven Pressfield Quotes
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I'm a normal guy.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
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If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
