David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.
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Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.
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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
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We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
