Donald Dunn Quotes
I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
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If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.
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I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.
