Maya Lin Quotes
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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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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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.
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I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
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Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.
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only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
