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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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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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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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
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We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
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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.
