Brian Dunkleman Quotes

Some of my favorite shows are Ricky Gervais' 'Extras' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

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• I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Government
  • Morning
  • Evening

• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Rest

• One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Up
  • Work
  • Young

• I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • History
  • Girl
  • Find

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Like
  • Living
  • Royal

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Should
  • Made
  • News

• I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • You
  • Look
  • Ahead

• All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Wish
  • Language

• Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • Most
  • Filmmaking
  • Narrative

• It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Night

• In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Service

• Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People

• Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

  

  Hattie McDaniel
  • Evil
  • Fight

• In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Slaves
  • Lay

• Some of my favorite shows are Ricky Gervais' 'Extras' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

  

  Brian Dunkleman