Sailor Jerry (Norman Keith Collins) Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.
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I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven't had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.
