Steven Van Zandt Quotes

'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.

Steven Van Zandt

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TimePastI AmPeopleMeSong

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Jehane Noujaim

LoveLearningPeopleGoalBeing

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

Andrew Scott

PersonalitySacrificeMysteryYou

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

SufferingOwnOnlyGloriousThing

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass

GoodWordsSayingMomentsBodyDays

My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.

Simon Schama

MotherGodCollegeLongBelieving

If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

Tom Felton

TeaSomeoneYouSeriouslyLovely

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

Mickey Rourke

I AmSeeingNowEdgyStuffRaw

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

Cobie Smulders

BirthdayFightPeopleMeSurprise

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

Brian Ferneyhough

AccountingGoSometimesPersonalHow

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

Anthony Browne

ChildrenGovernmentWillListenNeed

Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O'Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn't help but nerd out on him.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

LoveSadMeHelpGymLook

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Peter Temple

MorningReasonUpGetLikePlot

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