Nora Dunn Quotes
It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.
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Poor old Spotty Muldoon. He thought of splitting the atom the other day. If only he could have had the idea about thirty years ago, he'd have made a bloody fortune.
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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
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The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
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[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.
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It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.
