Steven Rodney McQueen Quotes
I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Life is God's art.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
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I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.
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My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
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Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
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With 'Torches,' I wanted to make a great pop record; I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no long pieces of music without vocals. I kind of wanted to write the perfect pop album.
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I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.
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This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
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I don't think that 'Hannah' garnered a whole lot of respect from certain people.
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I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.
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Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.
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There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
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I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
