David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
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I don't go to a lot of other directors' sets; directors don't come to mine. Directors are all very cordial with each other, but they're not necessarily friendly.
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
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When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.
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Being on television is a little constraining. You spend six to eight months filming, and you get stuck in that gear. I feel like doing movies is a lot more my style.
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I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
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A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.
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I didn't really fit well with what was going on in Nashville at the time. I was too loud, I was too bluesy, I was too "a lot of things.
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I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.
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I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
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They [people] mistake fashion for style.
