Stephen Dunn Quotes
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
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After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
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Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?
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If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.
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Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
