Stephen Dunn Quotes
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
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I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
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We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.
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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.
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'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.
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I get very nervous about not being around the office.
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Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.
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You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
