Duncan Jones Quotes
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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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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The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.
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Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.
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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.
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My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
