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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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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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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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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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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Stalinism and fascism, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmetrical phenomena. In many of their features they show a deadly similarity.
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I love being physical and acting at the same time.
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I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
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The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.
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You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.
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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.
