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John Gregory Dunne Quotes

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

John Gregory Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sports World Retirement Outside Star

When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.

Advertising You Invest Off Audiences

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

Artist Office Just Like Type

I'm from a small town called Alesund in Norway.

Small Small Town Town Norway

When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.

Good Dance Fun Mom Exercise Young

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

Donald E. Westlake

New York Looking New Something Once

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Food Yourself Door Color Someone

Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

Winston Marshall

Hero He Absolute Elton John Lad

That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Life Father Beautiful Vision Flying

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

Good Communication Respect Job Boss

Gossip is conversation about people.

People Gossip Conversation About

In Serbia, it is amazing pressure. When we lose a game, it is like somebody dies. It is really horrible.

Amazing Game Pressure Lose Horrible

I don't think that hard about why people come out to my shows or trying to influence them or anything. I'm just happy that they show up.

Happy People Influence Think Trying

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