Ai Yazawa Quotes
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.
