Yishan Wong Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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Act because you love to act.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
