Jim McKelvey Quotes
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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Morality has nothing in common with politics.
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Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.
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Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
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No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.
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Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.
