John Gregory Dunne Quotes
I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.
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The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
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Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.
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I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
