Aaron Yoo Quotes
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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We're all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don't know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I've never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
