Darcey Steinke Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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My favorite part of modeling is backstage. Every day you work with different people, and as much as people learn about my story, I get to learn about theirs.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
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You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.
