Sandra Oh Quotes
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
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I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
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I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.
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Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.
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It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.
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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
