Stephen Dunn Quotes
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, and care demand that we must listen.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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There were many times that I felt like a fish out of water, times that I really said to myself, 'do I even fit in'.
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And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.
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I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
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Seasons are really annoying. You get a really great pair of shoes or a beautiful pair of boots, and then you try to get them again four months later, and they say, 'Oh no, that was last season.'
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He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
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Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.
