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People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

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• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Want
  • Me
  • Dance

• In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Done
  • Business
  • Strong

• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • School
  • Day
  • Always

• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Same

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Fun
  • More
  • Critic

• No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • Country
  • Society

• In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • America

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men

• Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • English

• Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.

  

  Andrea Corr

• In baseball, you're always moving people around.

  

  Joe Torre
  • People
  • Moving
  • Baseball

• A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Lost
  • Pain

• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • People
  • World
  • War

• So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.

  

  Philippe Perrin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Training

• People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

  

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