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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We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied and lived in a hostel throughout in London and became a barrister.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
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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.
