Jimmy Chin Quotes
I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.
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We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
