Dominick Dunne Quotes

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

Dominick Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1925 - August 26, 2009

Topics

LiveYouDownPlaceHollywoodNever

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

Jim Crace

TrustStartRestYouWayTop

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Mel Carnahan

TimePastSexDownCrimeMore

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

John Lindsay

New YorkCityNewNationMelting Pot

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

Tom Sizemore

WorkGoodWifeTeamBecauseWorking

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.

Ron Howard

PeopleYouMental IllnessRightMost

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

Mary Lambert

PeopleSocietyThinkHurtSomeone

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Janis Ian

TimeMeRoadMoreGoingOff

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

Diane Kruger

MyselfSmallMoreTomboyActually

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

Annie Leibovitz

TimeTalkingGoHardSameSomething

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Anthony Anderson

WorkYouI CanUnderstandNeverAct

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

Alison Krauss

PeopleDoingAttentionYouGoKnow

To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.

Winnie Byanyima

ChangeWomenMenPeopleThinkWay

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