Griffin Dunne Quotes

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

Griffin Dunne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 8, 1955

Topics

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Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

John Mackey

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I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

Robert Jarvik

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My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

Amanda Eliasch

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I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert comics at the time, and I guess the two kind of got fused in my mind. I've always imagined God as an irrational, distractible boss. It's my best explanation for our planet.

Simon Rich

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I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.

Rob Riggle

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People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

Lisa Lampanelli

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I found out my limit. I'm not a singer and a dancer.

Dinah Manoff

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May is the month when people focus on mothers more than any other time of year.

Christy Turlington

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Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

Ashley Jensen

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

William James

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The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.

Pranab Mukherjee

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The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

Peter T. King

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