Malese Jow Quotes
I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.
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I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
