Stephen Dunn Quotes

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

Stephen Dunn

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• I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Time
  • Always
  • Matter

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• 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!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Music
  • Die
  • Proud

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Routine

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Challenge
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Words
  • Powerful
  • Retirement

• 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.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Family

• I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

  

  James Galway
  • Free

• We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Cool
  • Sexy

• 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.

  

  Charles Edison
  • High
  • Fall
  • Service

• 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.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Life
  • Good
  • Balance

• We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

  

  David Eagleman

• I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Work
  • Writing

• '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.

  

  David Ayer
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Moments

• It began to worry me that I could never possibly settle in England now, not after Tokyo nude-shows and sliced green chillies, brown children sluicing at the road-pump, the air-conditioned hum in bedrooms big as ballrooms, negligible income-tax, curry tiffins, being the big man in the big car, the bars of all the airports of Africa and the East.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Children
  • Car
  • Air

• The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Use
  • Tongue
  • Tool

• I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

  

  Brett Hull
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Son

• The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

  

  Michael Urie
  • Hard Work
  • Tenacity

• When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Worry
  • Becoming