Tadashi Shoji Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.
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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.
