Doug Jones Quotes
I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.
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I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.
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I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'
