Charlyne Yi Quotes
Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.
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These candidates are all beholden to these super PACs.
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
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Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.
