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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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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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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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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Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.
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I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.
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My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
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There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.
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Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.
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Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!
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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
