Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Audiences deserve better.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
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I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.
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I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.
