Cheryl Yeoh Quotes
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski -
And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.
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Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake
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Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.
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Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them.
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Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
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I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.
