David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!
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Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.
