"The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord."

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Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books

John Gregory Dunne

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“Beauty was so heavily important in my family, something I had to contend with. All those experiences allow me to make what I'm making today. I grew up with that. There's a reason why I express that in my art. I'm trying to figure it out myself.”
“My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.”

Source : Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org. August 9, 2015.
“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.”

Source : Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.”

Source : Charlas de Cafe
“Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.”
“It was very difficult. We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell. I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.”
“We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 9, 2016
“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”

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