Karrine Steffans Quotes
My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
