"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

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Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.196, Zola Books

John Gregory Dunne

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”
“I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.”
“I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.”
“For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries, or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the diseases of aging.”
“Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.”

Source : Quoted in Colin JarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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