Mabel Cheung Quotes
I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
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Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.
