Steve Porcaro (Steven Maxwell Porcaro) Quotes
We always just go out there and do what we do. That's the way we approach all of our records.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
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I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.
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My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.
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If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
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Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
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Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.
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I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.
