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For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

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• I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• I really like sort of disappearing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Really
  • Disappearing

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Think
  • Want
  • Actor

• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Constant

• Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Professional
  • Actually

• I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Drawing
  • Kiss

• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • God
  • Purpose

• The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Single

• He began with an exordium, containing an apology for his resignation of the office of Advocate-General in the Court of Admiralty; and for his appearance in that cause, in opposition to the Crown, and in favor of the town of Boston, and the merchants of Boston and Salem.

  

  John Adams
  • Apology

• Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

• Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Animals

• If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Good

• There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • Done
  • Science
  • Funny

• I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Dream
  • Poetry
  • Emotions

• Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God
  • May
  • Soul

• I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Recovery

• For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

  

  Daniel Wu