J. Christopher Stevens Quotes
We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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My dad dated a lot of supermodels.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.
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Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
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We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.
