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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Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.
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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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The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.
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I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.
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My motivation is paying the mortgage. No joke. Honestly. I still suffer with nerves and think, 'Why am I putting myself through this torture?' It's not actually the love of winning - it's that building of a partnership with a horse. Just riding horses every day keeps me going. And that threat of losing the mortgage.
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I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.
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Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
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Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
