Stephen Dunn Quotes
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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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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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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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 loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.
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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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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.
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The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
