David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

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• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.

  

  Larry Drake
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• For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!

  

  Tamala Jones
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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
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• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Done
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• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

  Natalie Zea
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• When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • You
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• We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
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• I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
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• We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• 'The Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Winning

• As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
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• A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

  

  Chevy Chase

• I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

  

  Mary Lambert
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• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Great
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• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Future
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  • Risk

• Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • High
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• It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

  

  David Bowie
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  • Drug
  • Alcohol