Jeff Duncan Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
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I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
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When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that, you know, I never saw that kind of response toward any other performer.
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Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.
