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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Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.
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I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
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I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'
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I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.
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If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.
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I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
