Yaya Han Quotes
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
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You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.
