Lea Salonga Quotes
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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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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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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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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
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The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
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The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
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Your thoughts greatly influence how you feel and behave. In fact, your inner monologue has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I have no inner monologue.
