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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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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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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Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach. I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess.
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Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
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Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.