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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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.
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In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.
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Toronto is home; nothing beats home.
