Channing Dungey Quotes
The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
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By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.
