Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
