Gary Numan Quotes
If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.
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God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.
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I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
