Donald Dunn Quotes

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

Donald Dunn

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• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

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• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

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• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

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• I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
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• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
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• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
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• You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
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  • Feel

• I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Long
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• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
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• Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
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• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

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  • Up
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• When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

  

  Larry Bird
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• When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

  

  David Foster
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• I can count on one hand the number of times I've done SoulCycle. I was not soul'd.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Done
  • Soul
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• I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Time
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  • Work

• When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • Player
  • King
  • Sweet