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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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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You can’t magically change your gender. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age.
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The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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Overall, people are reading less.
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What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
