Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Michelle Yeoh) Quotes

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Search
  • Transparency

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Speak
  • Place
  • Dead

• Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Society
  • Look
  • Pressure

• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Hell

• Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Night
  • Speak

• Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Words
  • Doing
  • Page

• Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Breathe through your movements.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Breathe
  • Through
  • Your

• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • True
  • Success
  • Freedom

• He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Important
  • Really

• I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Book

• The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

  

  Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friend