Olen Steinhauer Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
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I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.
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They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.
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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
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I'm not an over-dominant person. I don't go around and expect everyone to listen to me the whole time. But I like to be in control of my life because I have so many people around me, I can get pulled in one direction and then the other. If I don't have any say in it, then I end up just losing complete control and I don't like the idea of that. I could actually lose my identity.
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Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.
