John Gregory Dunne Quotes
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
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The orb allows for constant dynamic feedback.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
