John Gregory Dunne Quotes
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
John Gregory Dunne
Quotes to Explore
-
Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
Calista Flockhart
-
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Taiye Selasi
-
I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
Caprice Bourret
-
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
Ma Long
-
Pirates have always fascinated me.
Tanith Lee
-
If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.
Wanda Sykes
-
The Egyptian people have free will. they choose whoever they want to rule them. The Army and the Police now are careful for people's will to choose their rulers.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
-
I didn’t tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
Ben Aaronovitch
-
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
Quentin Tarantino
-
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
Faye Dunaway
-
I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.
Peter Greenaway
-
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
John Gregory Dunne
