Priscilla Ahn Quotes
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
-
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
-
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
-
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
-
Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
-
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
-
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
-
I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
-
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
-
We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
-
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
-
I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
-
When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
-
Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
-
I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
-
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
-
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
-
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
-
California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
-
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
-
I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
-
I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
-
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'
