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" I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school. "

Duncan Jones
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" When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is. "
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" Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed. "
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" My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed. "
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" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "
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