Lea Salonga Quotes
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
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I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
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My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
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I have no inner monologue.
