Duncan Sheik Quotes
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.
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If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
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I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.
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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
