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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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
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I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'
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Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
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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.
