Nora Dunn Quotes

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown

Nora Dunn

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• Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Art
  • Choose
  • Balancing

• If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Studying
  • Boundless

• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • Ride
  • Bus

• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • End
  • President
  • Arts

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Soul

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Surprised
  • How
  • Depth

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Art
  • History

• All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Fight
  • Daily

• I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Me

• There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Done
  • Doubt
  • Apple

• My real fans understand what it is I do, but on another level I have fans who just love my music and don’t know I write it and enjoy it shallowly - and that’s OK too. I think art and music should be just as powerful if you drink it shallow as if you drink it deep.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Real
  • Art

• And then all of a suddenOh, it seemed so strange to me,How we went from something's missingTo a family.Lookin' back all I can sayAbout all the things he did for meIs I hope I'm at least half the dadThat he didn't have to be.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Family
  • Hope

• I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.

  

  Bill Pullman

• I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Real
  • Done
  • Business

• Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Alone

• If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.

  

  Nina Nesbitt
  • Music
  • Matter
  • Selling

• I always work with 18 friends.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Always

• How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Friends
  • Feels
  • Clown