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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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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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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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
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And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.
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Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.
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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.