Kim Shaw Quotes
I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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I hate to confess that I would love to have all of my children in Washington - and at the same time, they've been all over the place, and my heart of hearts, I believe that freedom is wonderful.
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I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.
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I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'
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I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.
