David James Duncan Quotes
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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My parents were hippies.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Revolutions never go backward.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.
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The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.
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If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
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We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
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I want to put myself in the best position to stay out on the floor.
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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
