Steven Stucky Quotes

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

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• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Parents
  • I Love
  • Llife Mine

• The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • World
  • High
  • Energy

• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Character
  • Singing

• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
  • Ambition

• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Doubt

• If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Life
  • Money
  • Financial

• We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Life
  • Opportunity

• Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • School
  • Bad
  • Learning

• What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Work
  • Money
  • Home

• I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Parents

• Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.

  

  Duane G. Carey

• A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Character
  • Understanding

• We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Work
  • Character
  • Rectify

• I'm as honest as I can be.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Honest
  • I Can

• I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Live
  • Remember

• We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Movie

• I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

  

  Steven Stucky
  • Character
  • Movement
  • Measures