Douglas Dunn Quotes
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.
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One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.
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To believe it possible to know a universally valid truth is in no way to encourage intolerance; on the contrary, it is the essential condition for sincere and authentic dialogue between persons. On this basis alone is it possible to overcome divisions and to journey together towards full truth
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I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.
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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
