Usha Uthup Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
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That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
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Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
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All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.
