Ren Ng (Yi-Ren Ng) Quotes
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
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In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
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It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.
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The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
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If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how your heart wants it to be made. But it's a difficult world, especially for musicians.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
