Duncan Jones Quotes
It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
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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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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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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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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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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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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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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 have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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Some people are cool, some are cold. Many are down to earth, while a select few are divas.
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Some people might say my life is in a rut, but I'm quite happy with what I've got.
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It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
