Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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Judea and Samaria can be a place of refuge for the nation.
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I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.
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When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling.
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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
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My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
