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 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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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.
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The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'
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Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
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We do not find it hard to bear with ourselves, though we are full of faults. Why then may we not learn to be tolerant of others?
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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.
