Duke Johnson Quotes
Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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Our intention creates our reality.
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I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.
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Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.
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There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.
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You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.
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There were eight guys that played last year? That means 20 new guys? Wow. That just shows it's harder to win. And there are a few guys that aren't here that win a lot.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
