Dat Phan Quotes
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
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I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.
