Nobu Matsuhisa (Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa) Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
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I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
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I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.
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The way social media is now, and people are with cameras - we all live different lives whether you're in the spotlight or not. I mean, you can't be a boss or an executive of a big time company and act a fool, because there are cameras everywhere and people are going to document it and take pictures. I'm not used to stuff like that.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
