Douglas Dunn Quotes
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
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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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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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I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.
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The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.
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'Noon sits at the Master's right hand, Dawn at his left. Dusk stands behind, in the shadows. Yet sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.'
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The city no longer exists except as a cultural ghost for tourists. Any highway eatery with its TV set, newspaper and magazine is as cosmopolitan as New York or Paris. (p.12)
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No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs.
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I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.
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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
