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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The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
