John Gregory Dunne Quotes
I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
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It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.
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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
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Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
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Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.
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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
