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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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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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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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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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
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We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.
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I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
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As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.
