Duncan Jones Quotes
I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.
Quotes to Explore
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I don't read books.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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If I could go back to before I started 'Riverdale,' I would tell myself to speak up when I felt like something wasn't right - to use my voice and know that it's worth hearing.
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I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear
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Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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Learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.
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I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.
