Steven Shainberg Quotes

There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.

Steven Shainberg

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PeopleMeStartYouDreamPerson

I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced.

Sue Hubbell

BusinessSonHusbandFarmUniversity

I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.

Tommy Wiseau

GodSimpleGuyJust

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Rob Sheffield

StyleLookHerReligiousPublic

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Ronnie Wood

FaceYouKnowPaintArguingWell

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Ruby Wax

AgeMyselfI AmKnowOldLies

I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.

Michael Learned

LoveI Love YouTimeYouTelevision

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

Lou Barlow

MusicThinkMusiciansRealSounds

When I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, I decided I wanted to leave my car at home and create an experiment with my own life. I'd only be able to find creative solutions to transportation if I felt the pain of trying to get to downtown at 10 o'clock at night.

Logan Green

LifeHomeCarPainCreativeNight

Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

Christopher Priest

EyesMenTogetherAmericanCenter

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Corey Taylor

TiredBookBornWantKindCabin

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the 'reasoned judgment' of a bare majority of this Court - we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

Antonin Scalia

DecisionStepPeopleLawQuestion

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

TeacherArtSchoolThinkingArtist

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