Eudora Welty Quotes
I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
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From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.
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I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
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There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
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The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
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I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.
