Ellen Wong Quotes
When I'm nervous, I know I care about something - you should be nervous about things that you want.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
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What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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The business case for diverse employment is not a matter we can ignore. When the business case merges with values and national objectives, this serves as a wake up call for us all. We cannot ignore the opportunity; we cannot ignore the commitment.
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The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.
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Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
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If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.
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In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.
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94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.
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News is only the first rough draft of history.
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When I'm nervous, I know I care about something - you should be nervous about things that you want.
