Duncan Jones Quotes
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
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Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
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Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.
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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
