Chris Killip Quotes
I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.
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I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
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I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.
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Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
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I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
