R.L. Dunn Quotes

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.

I love improvisation.

As an actor, you have to have your history.

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway

To be average is to be as near the bottom as the top.

Call time out when you need help and ask the Coach for help. Don't wait. Do it when you need it.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.

I love what's left after love has been tested.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure

If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

I take all of my music seriously and personally.