David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.
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I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
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All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.
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Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.
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We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
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The end-Permian extinction also seems to have been triggered by a change in the climate. But in this case, the change went in the opposite direction. Right at the time of extinction, 252 million years ago, there was a massive release of carbon into the air—so massive that geologists have a hard time even imagining where all the carbon could have come from. Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium. The water became acidified, and the amount of dissolved oxygen dropped so low that many organisms probably, in effect, suffocated.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
