Sandra Oh Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.
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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.
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I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
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I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.
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If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.
