David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.
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Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.
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I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
