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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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
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The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!
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Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.
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Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
