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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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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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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
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I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.
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You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
