William Stafford Quotes
...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I want to have a long career.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.
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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public.
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
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...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
