William Shunn Quotes
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show Desperate Housewives. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
