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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The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
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Mirth, admit me of thy crew,To live with her, and live with thee,In unreprovèd pleasures free.
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All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
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I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
