Steven Stucky Quotes
The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
Quotes to Explore
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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My mom and I are very close.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
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Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.
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The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."
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The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
