Chip Kelly Quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't like controversy.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.
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Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
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I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.
