Chiaki Kuriyama Quotes
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
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My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.
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I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
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Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
