Jan Koum Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.
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I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
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The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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