Steven Van Zandt Quotes

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

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• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conscience

• I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Innocent
  • Too Much
  • Too

• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Violence
  • Organization

• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Thought

• Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Humor

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• Jackie Chan is a myth.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Myth
  • Jackie
  • Jackie Chan

• In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Government

• I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Woman
  • Win
  • First

• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Science
  • Chance

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Hand

• A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Single
  • Need
  • Loss

• To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Me
  • Language
  • Thing

• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Grandfather
  • Piece of Paper
  • Culver

• Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Feelings
  • Leaving
  • Cat

• It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Mind
  • Cat
  • Lips

• As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Learning
  • Actor
  • Scene