Donald Dunn Quotes
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?
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A playmaker, he makes that play. . . . If you are (screwing around) on one play, that might have been your play to make.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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As an actor with a star status, I can't restrict myself to one type of films and roles.
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Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
