Duncan Sheik Quotes
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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Lemaitre has been one of my inspirations ever since I started making music.
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.
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Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.
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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.
