Doris Lilly Quotes
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
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I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
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To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
