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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There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.
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So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
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The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
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Whatever you dream is you find a way to get there, even if you're not paid a lot. Do it for the love of what you do.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
