Quotes by Dominick Dunne - Page 1

Success is the most valuable commodity.
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Commodity
Valuable
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I think I need pictures with my articles.
Dominick Dunne / Writer
Articles
Need Think I Think
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Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
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Party
Ritual
Sophisticated
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Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.
Dominick Dunne / Writer
First-Rate
Producer
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People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
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Kings
People
Play
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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
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Vanity Fair
Forum
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For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
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Hopeless
Plight
Exceeded
Joys
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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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Los Angeles
Love Home Always
Angeles
Los
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My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
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Drove
Surgeon
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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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Knows
Liz
Persons
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I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
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Daughter
Courtroom
Attended
Enraged
Trial
Witnessed
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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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Justice
People
Thinking
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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 / Writer
Access
Fortunate
Powerful
Rich
Writing
Seat
Entire Life
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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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Balanced
Defense
Guilty
Pretense
Appalled
Attorneys
Reporting
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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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Adventure
Wonderful
World
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Ive 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.
Dominick Dunne / Writer
Drama
Ordinary
Want
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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.
Dominick Dunne / Writer
Dramatic
Ordinary
Low
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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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Failing
Meaner
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The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.
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Book
Editors
Writing
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