Stephen Dunn Quotes
And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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I really hate to write.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.
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Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!
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They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph.
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
