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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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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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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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants. For most of us it's both - and a lot more complicated.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.
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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.
