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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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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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
