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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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
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These were not religious fanatics, I saw, not mindless servants or self-punishing ascetics, but were, instead, row upon row of intelligent, questioning, alert young men and women.
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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
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What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
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All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.
