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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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 knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.
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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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.
