Nora Dunn Quotes

I think it's interesting that when you play a lesbian, people ask you if you're a lesbian, but if you play a serial killer, nobody asks you if you're a serial killer.

Nora Dunn

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
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• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
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• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
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  • Boyfriend

• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
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  • Interesting

• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• I want to play more festivals.

  

  Kat Edmonson
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• You cannot play naive if you're not.

  

  Ida Lupino
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  • Naive

• I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Interesting
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• I play a nobody in Japan.

  

  Jackie Chan
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  • Nobody
  • Japan

• I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

  

  Adam Pally
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• I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

  

  Larry Brown
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• There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

  

  Bruce Lipton
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  • Character

• I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.

  

  David Thewlis
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• Sometimes it concerns you that when you have won for a period time, the players start thinking you have a right to win. You have to earn it every play, and I say that every week. We didn't go out there and do it last week, and TCU played harder and tougher than we did.

  

  Bob Stoops
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  • Win

• Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

  

  Anne Carson
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• I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
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• I think it's interesting that when you play a lesbian, people ask you if you're a lesbian, but if you play a serial killer, nobody asks you if you're a serial killer.

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Interesting
  • Play
  • Gay