Elizabeth Tan Quotes
I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
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The only constant I can find is hard work.
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
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The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
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I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.
