John Gregory Dunne Quotes

'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.

John Gregory Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

Jimmy Smits

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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves.

Andie MacDowell

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According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Jeff Miller

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Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Alveda King

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I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.

Steven Erikson

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I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Chris Matthews

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I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

Colleen Atwood

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Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Bob Beauprez

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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Algernon Sidney

BestMenPerfectNothingNeverMany

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Philipp Meyer

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Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.

Preston Sturges

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I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

Peter Baynham

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