Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.
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Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
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I value my privacy a lot.
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Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.
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Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
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I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
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It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
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Filming movies and TV are vastly different. Film is more of slower pace. You usually have more time to develop characters, and it sometimes takes up to 3 months to film one movie. Sometimes you'll spend half the day filming one scene. TV moves much faster. It takes about 10 days to film an episode.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
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When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.
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CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.
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Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.
