Alex Tan Quotes
Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.

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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)
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Carl Reiner is perfection.
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Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.
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There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.
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I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.
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I've always been a night owl.
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When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.
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We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.
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I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.
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'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
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I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.
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I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.
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[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
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Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.