Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
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When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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I've always been a texting advocate.
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Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.
