Tracy Spiridakos Quotes
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.
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Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
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I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.
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I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.
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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
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Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
