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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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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'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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I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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Pair up in threes.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.
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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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You live up - or down - to your expectations.
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We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
