Stevie Young Quotes
I like to fool with the stuff and I go up in my little studio and once you get into it, you may stay there hours doing it.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Leia was awesome. But the character I identified with most was Luke Skywalker. I left the theater certain the Force was strong with me, that I could train to be a Jedi and wield a lightsaber just like Luke.
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I like to fool with the stuff and I go up in my little studio and once you get into it, you may stay there hours doing it.
