Dominick Dunne Quotes

#1. You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

Dominick Dunne

#2. I'm a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you're going to catch something in the future even.

Brett Ratner

#3. A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Howard Hodgkin

#4. Sometimes it's about living life 'one letter' at a time.

Cecelia Ahern

#5. They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Dixie Lee Ray

#6. My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man ... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

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#7. There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward - Long John Silver

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

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#9. Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

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#10. I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

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#11. Each person has a specific mission in the world, but all human beings serve like cells in a single body, working together in the realization of a common goal.

Kabbalah Centre

#12. I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

Dominick Dunne

#13. People in heaven will not be denied the privilege of enjoying their life just because they're consciously aware of hell. If they couldn't, then hell would have veto power over heaven.

J.P. Moreland

#14. I think I need pictures with my articles.

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#15. I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

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#16. I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

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#17. I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

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#18. There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see.

Paul Auster

#19. There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.

Stephen Colbert

#20. We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

Dominick Dunne

#21. If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn't know her.

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#22. When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

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#23. I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

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#24. The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#25. I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

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#26. Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

Dominick Dunne

#27. I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.

Betty White

#28. People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Dominick Dunne

#29. For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Dominick Dunne