What I really like to do is write ‘genre’ stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with ‘Da Vinci’s Demons,’ and I’ll do the same with ‘Man of Steel.’
Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse ‘Tootsie’ story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
It’s intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they’re six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It’s a lot to stand up to… My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.
I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.
Basically, we had the idea of doing this production of ‘Steel Magnolias,’ and we spoke to Queen Latifah about it, and she got excited.
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
I’m a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.
The President can’t go around in a steel box, as much as the Secret Service would like him to. Protection is an art form, keeping the President available to the public while protecting. Most of the hard protection is done by the police, the perimeter work.
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City – they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you’ll get a different answer.
It’s nice knowing we’re putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front.
My daily watch is Rolex, stainless steel. They’re light, they’re comfortable.
I still have my first ‘Black Lightning’ that I got way back in the day, and my first ‘Steel.’ And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.
For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
At home, I like my kids to drink out of stainless steel tumblers. They are non-breakable and non-toxic.
There are people working in Mahoning Valley in steel, in Findlay, Ohio, in rubber, in many other places because we’ve enforced trade deals.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I’d prefer steel pins.
Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, heavy-handedly provoked South American governments on any number of issues, including a rush to endorse the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela, which only worked to steel resistance and build solidarity.
I remember I had to have steel toecaps because my nana said, ‘They’ll last,’ and I remember being bullied because my shoes weren’t like anyone else’s. Everyone had Kickers.
Over the years, we have financed projects in core industrial sectors like steel, cement, aluminium and petrochemicals, and in manufacturing sectors like automobiles and textiles.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
‘Captain Marvel,’ whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.
Every night you go out there, you get hurt. It’s really the easiest way to say it. People can describe wrestling however they want to, but your body is flesh and bone, and it’s not meant to be slammed on wood and steel.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
I think I’m going to do a workout tape called ‘Hand to God to Abs of Steel.’
I’m armed with more than complete steel, – The justice of my quarrel.
No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to the people, to the ground. A lot many suggestions come once it is implemented. So many laws have been amended after receiving people’s suggestions.
‘Real Steel’ was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.
It was at the Children’s Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, ‘Here is a woman who doesn’t mess around.’ Steel in her spine, Hillary didn’t want to talk about anything other than how to make children’s lives better.
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
And that’s the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on ‘Steel Magnolias,’ and a standby painter on ‘Pelican Brief’ taught me to knit. I’m pretty good at it now!
I’m doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They’re faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they’re funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.
I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy’s and Steel Pole Bath Tub. It was through early 90s Hip Hop that I found my way to Soul and Funk, and then out the other side into beats.
America produces the world’s best steel, and southwestern Pennsylvania produces the world’s best steelworkers.
The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don’t want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
Americans deserve the right to clean, drinkable water and as we upgrade our aging water infrastructure, and the federal dollars used to supply these systems should not be used to buy unfairly traded Chinese steel.
Actually, lots of women, when they’re pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
World leaders need to work together through the rules-based system of the WTO to tackle unfair practices, including the widespread dumping of steel on world markets at less than market price.
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
When you’re no longer ill, and everyone’s gotten over the fact that you’ve had cancer, that core of steel doesn’t go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.
I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.
One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.
It’s intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they’re six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It’s a lot to stand up to… My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.
