Gail Tsukiyama Quotes

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

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• My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.

  

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• Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
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• All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

  

  Gagan Narang
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  • Different
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• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Music
  • Book
  • Piano

• When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
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• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
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• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
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  • Sit

• We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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  • Something

• Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

  

  James Montgomery
  • Art
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  • Flower

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Art
  • American
  • Elements

• Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Long
  • Book
  • Study