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 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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There's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successful. I just know there's an audience out there that wants character also.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
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When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.
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There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.
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I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.
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I'm a very sinister person.
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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.
