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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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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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 feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.
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One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
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Life is going by, and if you don't do something about your dreams and make them a reality and start to love who you are as yourself, then you will not be able to embrace any of those dreams. Who you are is the immense magic.
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Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
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I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
