Freddie Wong Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
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Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.
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I loved working with Stephen Frears. He's a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it.
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I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.
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Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
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Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.
