Dominick Dunne Quotes
I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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If there is no cure, you must endure.
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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.
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I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.
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I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.
