Y. C. James Yen Quotes
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
Natalie Imbruglia -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
Sam Abell -
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
Naomi Scott -
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
E. Joseph Cossman -
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
Taylor Swift -
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple -
I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
T. J. Miller -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
Dana Hill -
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower -
I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
Kate Walsh
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Ted Williams -
I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
Bryce Harper -
In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
Sam Claflin -
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
Jaron Lanier -
I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
Patti Davis -
Go to the people
Y. C. James Yen