Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
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I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
