Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.
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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.
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I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.
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The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
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There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
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She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
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I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
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See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
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There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently – without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.
