Sandra Oh Quotes
People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
Quotes to Explore
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
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Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
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Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
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People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
