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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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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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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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.
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The 'control mechanism' view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.
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Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
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I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
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The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.
