Duncan Jones Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.
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We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
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What's gone is gone. You cannot change things so what is the point in being an overthinker?
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
