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 am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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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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We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
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I don't think we ever know 100 percent of a person, even ourselves, but I think in families, you get closer to people's secrets and people's darkness - and their light, the full contrast of a person.
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
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People like him think that they are god's gift to the world. What's worse, they are.
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I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
