John Gregory Dunne Quotes
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
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And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?
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Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
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What the world does not need is another script or television writer.
