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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Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.
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Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.
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I would rather obey than work miracles.
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I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.
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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.
