John Gregory Dunne Quotes
Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'
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He asked her twice to come along;They said good-bye at the break of dawn.'Cause you can't hold back the wind,If it's meant to be again,Then someday he'll find his way back to her arms.
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I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.
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Lady writer on the TVShe had all the brains and the beauty.The picture does not fitYou talked to me when you felt like it.Just the way that her hair fell down around her faceThen I recall my fall from graceAnother time, another place.
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
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So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
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Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.
