Elodie Yung Quotes
I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.
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Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.
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Sarah Paulson is mind-blowing. I mean, she always is. She's always fantastic.
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We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
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I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.
