George W. Jenkins Quotes
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.
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To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
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At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.
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I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.
