Michelle Kwan Quotes
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
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Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
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The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
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...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.
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All my work is always that exploration of human nature.
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Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
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I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.
