Donald Dunn Quotes
When Elvis sang, it almost sounded like he was whispering. But after you heard the record, his voice was the strongest thing you ever heard. He was incredible.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.
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Not having alcohol has kept the weight off around my waist; my skin feels so much better, and I am sleeping really well.
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All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
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When Elvis sang, it almost sounded like he was whispering. But after you heard the record, his voice was the strongest thing you ever heard. He was incredible.
