Godfrey Gao Quotes
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.
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Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.
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Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.
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My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
