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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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.
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I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.
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Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.
