David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
David Bowie
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
E. L. Doctorow
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
Ted Cruz
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
Fiona Shaw
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Karine Vanasse
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
David Herbert Donald
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
Nelsan Ellis
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I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it.
Lela Loren
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I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
Lee Westwood
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We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
Darren Criss
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I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat.
Ben Schott
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I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
Ellen Burstyn
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If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.
Doug Baldwin
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I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
Leslie Fiedler
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I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.
Jeff Daniels
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
Vera Farmiga
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'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'
A. A. Milne
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I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
Anne Wojcicki
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I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
David Bowie
