M. L. Stedman Quotes
We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.
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I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
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It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.
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Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.
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When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
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We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.