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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. ↗

— John Dryden

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ↗

— John Dryden

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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

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I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive. ↗

— Patty Duke

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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

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Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

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I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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