Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I was always a reluctant actor! I continue to be that. I announce a project, the camera rolls and I'm happy. I'm fortunate to be doing leading parts even now. Except for my mentor K. Balachander, for whom I can do even a walk-on part. When he directed his 100th film, I just walked in to do a small role. I just clowned around on camera.
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I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book.
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The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.
