Duncan Jones Quotes
Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.
