Lea Salonga Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I'm not politically correct.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Older students know what they want, which is good.
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I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
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Actually, I didn't plan to be an actor.
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
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Blue Dogs have always acted in a bipartisan way. The Blue Dogs were the group in the Democratic side of the aisle that really pushed for the welfare-reform package that ultimately was signed into law in 1996.
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I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.
