Lauren Tom Quotes
One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.

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Tone can be as important as text.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
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One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.