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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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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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 like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may beA pleasant road.I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from meAught of its load;
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In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
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There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.
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Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!
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As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
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They [people] mistake fashion for style.
