Ai Yazawa Quotes
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
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The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
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Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.
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Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Living fully, loving completely, leading boldly—these are the hallmarks of Jesus’ time on earth.
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People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.
