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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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
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There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.
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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.
