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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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
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Maybe I'll start a little group of us that's called the Don't Do Stupid Stuff caucus. I'm going to be in the D.D.S.S. caucus. I'm going to lead it. There's no reason for us to be doing stupid things that are not getting us anywhere.
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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
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I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
