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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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It is a massive participation sport. You can do it as a challenge, for charity or whatever. I believe it will continue to grow, and I will look forward to that happening.
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I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.
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Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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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.
