Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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I'm a cliche.
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Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
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Myself, I try to search for the new way, always trying to set up a new possibility and to find the new tools to express myself. To reach a broader audience.
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The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.
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It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.
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(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
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You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.
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Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.
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You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.
