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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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.
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Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.
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The eating of meat without doubt focuses the physical mechanism closely to the physical system. There is nothing wrong with this. If you are trying to develop inner abilities however, and if you wish to allow yourself a mobility of focus, then moderation in this respect must be used.
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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
