David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
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Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
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I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation.
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You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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It’s like walking on a big sumptuous butt.
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Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.
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I came to this so late in life. I said I’ll either make it or I won’t make it and I can’t be worried about what those people think. So the people listening who, in their droves in tweets and texts tell me I’m an eejit, I’m fine with it.
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The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
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I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
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The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
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I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
