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

• I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Art

• If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • People
  • Help

• Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

  

  Brent Runyon
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies. We weren't rich, but we were better off than I was growing up. And I looked around, and I was like, 'Who are these people?' It was the opposite of what I remembered growing up.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Guy
  • College
  • English

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

  

  Brian Dunkleman