Ronnie Dunn Quotes
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
Quotes to Explore
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I love books.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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In Judaism, the temple was the most holy site in the world. But if you extend that argument as a metaphor, and you say 'The world is a holy place,' and you're treating this holy place like a money-lending psycho, then Jesus says, 'This is hypocrisy!' and he'd point it out and flip it over.
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
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People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.
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I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
