Tao Okamoto Quotes
I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Truth is the best defense.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.
