David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
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When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.
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Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
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Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.
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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
