Gail Tsukiyama Quotes
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
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I've had such an odd career.
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.
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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
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Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.
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It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.
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I think that the best songs to sing are songs that you love, because you sing them with love when you love them.
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I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
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Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.
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Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.
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Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss...
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Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.
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When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.
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Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
