Ming-Na Wen Quotes
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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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I'd always loved watching YouTube videos, and that's what inspired me to make them myself. Initially I was drawn to makeup tutorials – I learned everything I know about makeup from YouTube.
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I've loved all forms of animation.
