Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Models are what they are... people who model clothing, that's all.
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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
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I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.
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I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
