Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have been trying for so long and we're not getting very far. But I do want to try to understand it better, and I want to make some forward movement.
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My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
