Al Duncan Quotes

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.