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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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.
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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.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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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.
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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.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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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.
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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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You want to feel, 'I know that character.'
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!
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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.
