Duncan Jones Quotes
Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.
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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
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You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
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I'm looking forward to next year, ... If I can eliminate just my water balls next year, I'll do better. That's no promise, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
