Euny Hong Quotes
As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I have always held that a case in a court of justice should be open for all and for newspapers to report.
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My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could come with her if I wanted to. We were married at the time, so I chose to come with her.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
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As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
