Duncan Jones Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.
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I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.
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No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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Nothing feels like you, boy. I don’t know how you knew, boy.
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As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.
