Duncan Jones Quotes

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

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• I don't do negative things.

  

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• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

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• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

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• I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

  

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• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

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• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

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• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

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• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  

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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

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• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

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• I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

  

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• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

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• I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

  

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• When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.

  

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• Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Dad