John Gregory Dunne Quotes
Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use celebrities' voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
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Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.
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It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.
