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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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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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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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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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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When I was a child, eight or ten years old, I made a solemn promise to God that, when I grew up, I would write him a hymn for the prayer-book. The vow has never been fulfilled. But I have painted a large number of pictures, and there must be more than thirty religious ones. I wonder if they will do instead.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
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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.
