Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.