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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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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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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Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
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To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
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Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
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I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.
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Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
