Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.
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We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.
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I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
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I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.
