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 begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
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I thought, 'Oh, acting is going to be great - I get to play different parts.' And then these auditions started coming up for terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, and I'm going, 'Whoa, what's this about?'
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Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?
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I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
