John Gregory Dunne Quotes
Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I like feeling fresh and having really dewy skin. I like feeling moisturized and having a good brow.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
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The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
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Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
