David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
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The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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We are in a good place. Her name is Crystal Renay. She has much promise. Yes, much promise. Quality.
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How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
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Try something different. Surrender.
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And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
