Nora Dunn Quotes

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

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• There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • God
  • Right

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Write
  • Comfortable
  • Paper

• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Holiday

• I like shopping, and I like to drive.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Like
  • Shopping
  • Drive

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Movie
  • Wonder

• Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Fall

• When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Respect

• I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • World
  • Patience

• I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don't want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I've learned from the best.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • People
  • Up

• Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Support

• You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Parents

• China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Past

• Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Identity
  • Communities
  • Contribution

• When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Love
  • Home

• 'The Five' is so special is because we all have such diverse backgrounds. It's such a nice mix of men, of women, and the variety of where we come from, different walks of life, different occupations, and certainly different viewpoints. That's what makes it so unique.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Scene