"New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper."

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Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

Griffin Dunne

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“I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.”
“I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.”
“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.”
“I canâ€™t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dogâ€™s eyes in the aptitude test â€“ a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I canâ€™t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.”
“I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.”

Source : "Stefon Harris thinks creativity is overrated". Interview with Matthew Borlik, Michael J. West, music.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.
“You can trust the unconscious.”
“Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made of particles. It's made of electrons and neutrons and protons. So the entire universe is made out of particles. Now what are the particles made out of They're not made out of anything. The only thing you can say about the reality of an electron is to cite its mathematical properties. So there's a sense in which matter has completely dissolved and what is left is just a mathematical structure.”
“Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.”

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