Jan Koum Quotes
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
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People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.
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My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.
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People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.
