Lea Salonga Quotes
Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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Democracies take time.
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I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.
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We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, 'Well, you should go to therapy.' And I thought about it, but then I said, 'Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?' And that's when I got the idea of touring.
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Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
