Ellen Wong Quotes
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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It is so difficult if nobody in the family will guide you.
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The movies I used to watch, I remember always being so angry because I felt like I, as a teenage girl, was never truly represented in a film. There were always bits of me that were represented - I'd watch 'Juno' and be like, 'Oh, well part of me is like that, but it's still not the whole thing.'
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The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!
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We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Toronto is home; nothing beats home.
