Steven R. McQueen (Steven Chadwick McQueen) Quotes
I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.
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If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, “Sorry, gotta go!
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I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
