Elodie Yung Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.
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Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
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It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
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I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.
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The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.
