Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.
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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
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Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.
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I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
