Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.
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Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.
