Duncan Jones Quotes
I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
