Jeff Duncan Quotes
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.
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I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
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I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
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We choose convenience over individuality every time-every time.
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For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
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Tourism is our No. 1 industry in South Carolina.
