Steven Rodney McQueen Quotes
Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
