Duncan Jones Quotes
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.
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Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.
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When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.
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For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.
