Emily Kuroda Quotes
I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
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I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
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Barack Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.
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Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.
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My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
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I've played all kinds of TV roles, from cowboys to fathers of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of course, I was very lucky to have had good directors.
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I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.
