Steven Weber (Steven Robert Weber) Quotes
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
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The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.
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Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.
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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
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Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.
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A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
