Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes
So many of my friends and family will go to Palm Springs as their weekend getaway destination, but when I need a break from Los Angeles, I'll head to Joshua Tree instead. There's something so magical about the energy of the Mojave Desert.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.
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Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.
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I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies there before. One of them was Neil Simon's 'London Suite,' which was based on his play. I also shot a film in Dublin, a little film with Bernadette Peters, called 'Bobbie's Girl.'
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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So many of my friends and family will go to Palm Springs as their weekend getaway destination, but when I need a break from Los Angeles, I'll head to Joshua Tree instead. There's something so magical about the energy of the Mojave Desert.
