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 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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When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
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I'm not so much of a joiner.
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I hope to direct a feature very soon. That is a big goal for me. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting that opportunity.
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Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.
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The best part of any fashion show is Karl Lagerfeld with his white hair, and the big glasses, and a fuckin' fan. Like he's some kind of Spanish lady or something. And I look at the fan and I'm like, 'Bitch, it's not that hot, what'choo doin'?'
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Truthfully, I'm normally very picky about who does my hair.
