Ambeth R. Ocampo Quotes
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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I'm very interested in science.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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I like stepping out of my comfort zone.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
