Steven R. McQueen (Steven Chadwick McQueen) Quotes
I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.
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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.
