David Duchovny Quotes
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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Books are humanity in print.
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I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
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My parents worry all the time because I trust people very easily.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
