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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Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!
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There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
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There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
