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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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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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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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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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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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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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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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
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Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
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I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
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My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
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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.
