David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
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[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
