Michael Chang Quotes
I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.
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I admit, that the commonplace man can never, by copying, produce a masterpiece; he notes every detail but he does not really see - the artist penetrates below the surface into the very heart of nature; for him everything is beautiful because beauty in art consists of character.
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Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural's the better way to go.
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Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
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I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
