Duncan Jones Quotes
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Racism is a physical experience.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.
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I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
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British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.
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Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
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It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England [
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I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
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Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.
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I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
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We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal!
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The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
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I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
