Jimmy Chamberlin Quotes
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.
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Mad, Bad, or just prepared to go where others fear to tread? The most controversial author and speaker in the world
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Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.
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Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
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The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
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My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
