Elodie Yung Quotes
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
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Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.
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I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
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I didn't want to make a caricature version of Elektra.
