Duncan Jones Quotes
My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
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It's weird to not know what a family is. Not know what a mother's love is. And not really know what a hug is or anything.
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Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
