John Gregory Dunne Quotes
Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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There's a new grievance every day to write about.
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If I repent now will God forgive me?
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In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
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Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
