Adam Dunn Quotes
It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Acting is in your soul.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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The truth is, there are so few female roles in movies. That's really limiting. As an actor, you wanna be able to sink your teeth into something. You don't want to just be the best friend. You don't want to just be the girlfriend.
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In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.
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It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.
