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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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
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If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
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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.
