Emily Chang Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.
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One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.
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The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
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I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.
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I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.
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Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.
