Nora Dunn Quotes

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

Nora Dunn

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• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Healthy

• Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

  

  Randy Falco
  • You
  • More
  • Where

• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Rich

• Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Remember
  • You
  • Isolation

• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

• I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Idea
  • Strange

• What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

  

  Joe Jamail

• I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Great
  • God

• There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

  

  Anat Cohen

• The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

  

  David Crane
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Game

• When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Different

• I think the Internet is a huge positive.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Positive

• I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • School
  • High

• As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • World
  • Growth
  • Travel

• I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Mountain

• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Time
  • She
  • Bold

• Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive' is inspired by the fact that a lot of people are being killed on both sides in Iraq and the average person in the States that I run into is a lot more concerned with how big their TV is. That's pretty weird. I look at my granddad's meticulously clipped headlines from World War II almost daily and I see that every action in that war was a two-inch bold print headline even if it wasn't one of the biggest battles. It was all major news. The scale of this war is a lot smaller, but someone being killed or a group of people being killed might be Page 3 or Page 12 news in the U.S.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Action
  • Bold
  • Average

• Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Completed
  • Heated

• Yeah, come on and let the good times roll. We're gonna stay here till we soothe our souls. If it take all night long.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Stay
  • Good Times
  • Come On

• I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Drinking
  • Performing
  • Prepared