John Cho Quotes
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.
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I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
