John Gregory Dunne Quotes
I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
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Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
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Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do - creating.
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
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I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
