Duncan Jones Quotes
I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.
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The world is too violent right now.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
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I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
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After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.
