Masi Oka Quotes
The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
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The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.
