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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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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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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Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.
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Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': There is world that should be, and the world that is. We live in one.Ebenezer: And must create the other, if it is ever to be.
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When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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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.
