Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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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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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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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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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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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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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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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 am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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I had a two-dribble limit.
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The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
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Passion is the fuel.
