Duncan Jones Quotes
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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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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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I would say that all successful people are fighters. They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.
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It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
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The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
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I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.
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I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
