David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

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• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Me
  • End
  • Scene

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • Know
  • Changes

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.

  

  Babyface
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Quality

• If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Body

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Tired
  • Year
  • Sickness

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • Look
  • See

• Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Society
  • Process
  • Equality

• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Man
  • Human
  • Beast

• Jack: pointing a pistol at Bob's trousers I'm going to blow your brains out.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Blow

• You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.

  

  Paul A. Volcker
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Way

• Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Nice

• I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Action

• To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

  

  David Bowie
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