Darcey Steinke Quotes

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Darcey Steinke

• Stronger
• Doors
• Modern Woman

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Amazing
  • Years
  • Over

• I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Never

• Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Music
  • Player

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• May we remain connected in love. We are one.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Coffee

• You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Beach

• I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fun

• I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Money
  • Done
  • Support

• In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • School
  • Opportunity
  • Transform

• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • She
  • Character

• I love what's left after love has been tested.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Left
  • Beens
  • Tested

• Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Night
  • Man
  • Champion

• The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • President
  • Level
  • Killed

• The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

  

  Darcey Steinke
  • Stronger
  • Doors
  • Modern Woman