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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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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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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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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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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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
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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.
