Duncan Sheik Quotes
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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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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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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One of my biggest and most influential was 'The Golden Girls.' That show, I remember specific episodes.
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Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.
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Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
