John Gregory Dunne Quotes

The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who would not themselves dream of volunteering - or of encouraging their children to do so.

John Gregory Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1932 - December 30, 2003

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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Jimmy Wales

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Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

Jennifer Hudson

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The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.

John Hillcoat

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I've got my life and 'Harry Potter,' where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before.

Matthew Lewis

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Simone de Beauvoir

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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

Tony Gilroy

PeopleTalkNeverComingBehind

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

Robert Carlyle

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The physical malaise we feel when we travel reflects a desynchronizing of all the clocks that reside in our tissues.

Michael W. Young

TravelFeelPhysicalOurReflects

One of the reasons why we can make a lot of money in equity markets is because they're auction-driven, and auction-driven markets are very different from almost any other kind of market.

Mohnish Pabrai

MoneyKindWhyEquityMarketAlmost

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Dennis Weaver

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To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.

Chris Cornell

LiveMusicSchoolPeopleLooking

Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

Christopher Guest

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