John Gregory Dunne Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
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You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
