Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I want to have a long career.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.
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Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
