Sandra Oh Quotes
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.
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South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
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I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
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The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
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In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.
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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.
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You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.
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I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.
