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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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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.

  

  C. S. Forester
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• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• Thinking differently is my strength.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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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.

  

  Naomi Klein
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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.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

  

  Karl Shapiro
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  • Day

• 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.

  

  Randall Kennedy
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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.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
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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.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
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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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.'

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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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.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• Love is only one of many passions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I think raise doubts that's what Russians are doing around the world. I think they're trying to do that. I think they're trying to cause everything to be in question. We see them playing in a lot of different elections and trying to do that, because that's all they've got.

  

  Nikki Haley
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• I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
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• No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
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• I was such a huge 'Seinfeld' fan, and I walked on the set, and I saw Kramer. I walked into Jerry's apartment, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is Jerry's apartment.'

  

  Constance Zimmer
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• An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

  

  Maria Semple
  • She
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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.

  

  Donald Dunn