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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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
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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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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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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
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It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.
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Sometimes you hear about people who can't wait to leave their hometown. I did not have that feeling at all. I love San Jose, I love the Bay Area, and I love coming home to visit.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
