Quotes by John Gregory Dunne - Page 2

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
Amount
Automobile
Los Angeles
Odd
Resources
Spending
Angeles
Balloon
Liked
Inordinate
Los
No Sense
Reasons
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In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
Golden
Jessica
Spring
Biography
Correspondent
Joan
Network
Screenplay
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For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
America
Casting
Economics
Eye
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Race
Silent
Subjects
Vietnam
Years
David
Contemplated
Generation
Global
Place
Member
Thirty-Five
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Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
Occupation
Medium
Outlet
Perhaps
Screenwriter
Ultimately
Yours
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Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
Ambiguity
Anecdotes
Atmosphere
Familiar
Gilded
Narrative
Questionable
Venues
Background
Flowing
Purged
Smoothly
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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
New York
Baseball
Games
Jackie
Mediocre
Remembered
Sabbath
Louis
Attended
Played
Branch
Browns
Catcher
Executive
Methodist
Midwestern
Neither
Nor
Robinson
St. Louis
Sundays
York
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For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
Admission
Career Path
Instinct
Military
Path
Plausible
Calls
Finds
Insistent
Martial
Standard
Private
Review
Robert
Trigger
Universities
Weekly
Widely
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