David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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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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I don't like allegories.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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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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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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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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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
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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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I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.
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When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
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Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.
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I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.
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They [people] mistake fashion for style.
