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.

  

  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.

  

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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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• 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
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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
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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.

  

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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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• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
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• TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.

  

  Niatia Jessica Kirkland
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• All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

  

  Jessica Lange
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• When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

  

  Andy Kindler
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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