Wess Stafford Quotes
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.
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I didn't know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.
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I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.
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It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
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British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
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I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.
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All are before me! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere! - And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?
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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
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Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.
