Ming-Na Wen Quotes
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta -
I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
Irvine Welsh -
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
Imran Khan -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader -
At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
Walter Annenberg -
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
Carl Hiaasen -
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
Kate Atkinson -
I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
Ice Cube
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
Hal Sparks -
I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.
Clare Balding -
There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
Douglas Wilson -
'Balthazar' is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy - with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past.
Claudia Gray -
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
Donna Tartt -
If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
Maria Sharapova
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If you look at my movies, they're pretty densely packed, such that they not only hold up to a second viewing, they're oftentimes better the second time you watch them. So I've always thought about crafting stories that could hold up to multiple viewings, and so VR obviously fits right into that.
Doug Liman -
Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life.
Kersti Kaljulaid -
Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
Usain Bolt -
There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.
David Leitch -
They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.
Chester Brown -
I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.
Ming-Na Wen