Priscilla Chan Quotes
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I buy way too many books.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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Grieve not that I die young.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.
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Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.
