Colton Dunn Quotes

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

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• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Anything
  • Adore
  • Michael

• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Good
  • Great
  • News

• I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • History
  • Inspiration
  • Strength

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

  

  Win Butler
  • Up
  • Music
  • Experience

• From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Good
  • Together
  • Fun

• I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Men
  • Women

• Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

  

  David Chang
  • History
  • Reading
  • Cooking

• Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Moments

• Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

  

  Alice Hamilton

• I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • Reading

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Fighting
  • Fool
  • Brave

• I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

  

  Colton Dunn
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Performing