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.
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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.
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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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I regret all of my books.
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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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Breathe through your movements.
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What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.
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I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
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I think it's just important for people to lead by example.
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Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.
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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.
