Jimmy Chin Quotes
I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
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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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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.
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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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Isn't Scientology one of those things where you really like someone and once you hear they're a Scientologist, you're like 'I'm out'?
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
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I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
