Monika Chiang Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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The law of small numbers is not really a law. It is a sarcastic name describing the misguided attempt to apply the law of large numbers when the numbers aren't large.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
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I'm too much of a control freak.
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
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Truthfully, I'm normally very picky about who does my hair.
