Yani Tseng Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
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I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
