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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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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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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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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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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The shortest thing I ever had to do was at Disney. A show called 'Bonkers.'
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'
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I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
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My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.
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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.
