Duncan Jones Quotes

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

Duncan Jones

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• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Great
  • Important
  • Writing

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Single
  • Play
  • Football

• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Prejudice

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Power

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Doing

• If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • History
  • Too Much
  • Geography

• I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Will

• My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Time
  • Job
  • Kids

• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • True
  • Man
  • Friend

• President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Hope
  • Stop
  • Thought

• France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • People
  • Love
  • Door

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Fun

• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Art
  • Attention

• Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Enjoy
  • Humans
  • Insight

• I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Reading
  • Story
  • Solitude

• I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • World
  • Friends
  • Ties

• I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

  

  David Suchet
  • Character
  • Age
  • Deep

• Retail is undergoing a massive change, and there is a chance for new leaders to emerge and older brands to reinvent themselves.

  

  Kirsten Green

• I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

  

  Duncan Jones