Amy Chan Quotes
Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
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If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good.
