Steven Shainberg Quotes
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
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There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet.
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I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.
