Iris Chang Quotes
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I know what poverty is.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.
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I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with 'Beat'… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the 'avatar' of all this.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
