David Douglas Duncan Quotes
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.
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Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.
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I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
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When you have children, that's your main focus.
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You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
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If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.
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I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.
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What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?
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I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook.
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Now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?
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I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
