Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Satin rays and coloured daysStark blue horizonsNaked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoonsVoicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bringPussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
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Print is definitely more nutritious. When I leave a website, I'm hungry again an hour later - especially the Chinese websites.
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The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
