Duncan Jones Quotes
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
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The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
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Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
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We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them.
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'Who can I trust?' Arthur blurted out. 'Those who wish you well,' said the Old One. 'Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn. And that is three questions and all your time.'
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Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman.
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Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
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He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.
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I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.
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Only stupid people don't change their minds.
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My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
