Duncan Sheik Quotes
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.
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Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
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Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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I haven't been to Comic-Con.
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
