Steven Stucky Quotes
I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.
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'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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No one can say which approach is the right one - so no one can say how close we are to a solution.
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I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.
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We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.
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I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.
