Stephen Dunn Quotes
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
Stephen Dunn
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
R. A. Salvatore
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
Samantha Power
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
Jack McBrayer
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
Iain Banks
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Rachel Sklar
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
Eddie Murphy
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Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
Viggo Mortensen
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The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war there when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator.
Barack Obama
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
P. D. James
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Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do.
Christopher Abbott
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
Jacky Ido
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Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.
Fedor Emelianenko
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
Adam Derek Scott
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The early entrants into the world of A.R., as with its cousin virtual reality, were disappointing: the phones were too weak, the networks were too slow, and the applications were too nerdy. But now the technological pieces are in place, and a whole generation - much of which is on Snapchat - has come to consider the camera almost a third arm.
Om Malik
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A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
Stephen Dunn
