Chip Gaines Quotes
Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?
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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
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When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
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Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
