William Stafford Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
