John Gregory Dunne Quotes
The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I want to win football games.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.
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I'm very familiar with Tyler Perry.
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The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.