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Steve Valentine Quotes

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

Steve Valentine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: scottish
Birth: October 26, 1966

Topics

Love Proud Lost Years Scottish Very

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Age Time Hockey You Seeing Play

I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Truth Sad Child Waiting Wait Better

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Money Struggle School People Think

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.

Power Equality People Reality Always

You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

John John Florence

Confidence Best Win You Go Heat

I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.

Family Great Friends And Family Door

June Carter Cash is probably my all-time favorite member of the Carter Family.

Family Cash June Favorite Member

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

History Justice Theatre Think Three

Who does this, at age 71, try to put a tour together from scratch? I have to say it's scary at times. But I like a challenge 'cause it keeps you on your toes.

Age Challenge Together You Say Try

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

Write Without Just Books Should Any

I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.

Time Moment Job Think You Crisis

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Time Myself View Artist Arts Spent

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