William Stafford Quotes
What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
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I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
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In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.
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Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
