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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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.
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There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds
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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.
