Emily Yoffe Quotes
The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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'Alarm' was about a boy that cheated on me, and when I found out, I wondered if I should give him another chance. I used to give a lot of chances to people hoping they would become better people, but this one didn't.
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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
