Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.
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Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
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Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
