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 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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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 know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
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The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
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I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.
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With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.
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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.
