Ming-Na Wen Quotes
Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.

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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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Going to the cinema or a meal can be difficult, with people asking for pictures or autographs.
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Active candidate evaluation and recruitment. Message development. Market research and issue development, ... I mean, how is that administrative?
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
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Regarding the plan to collect my writings in volumes, I am quite cool and not at all eager about it because, roused by a Saturnian hunger, I would rather see them all devoured. For I acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine, except perhaps the one On the Bound Will and the Catechism.
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Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.