Donald Dunn Quotes
I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.
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Film has its own innate poetry.
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I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.
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I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
