William Stafford Quotes
If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.
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If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.