Yaya Han Quotes
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
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An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
