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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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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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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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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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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Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.
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The author had not followed the precedents of any other artist, nor has he been able to copy Nature itself.. ..He who departs from Nature will surely merits high esteem, since he has to put before thee yes of the public forms and poses which have existed previously in the darkness and confusion of an irrational mind..
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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.
