Karen Fukuhara Quotes

I've always wanted to play a samurai warrior.

Karen Fukuhara

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • She
  • Book
  • Success

• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Water
  • Building
  • Development

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  

  Man Ray
  • Society
  • Painter
  • Useful

• I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Today

• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Agreement
  • Unite

• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wish

• In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Work
  • School

• Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Control
  • Technology

• I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Sad

• The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Time
  • School
  • Experience

• I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Good
  • Taken
  • Confidence

• I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Parents
  • Vegas

• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Great
  • Book
  • Girl

• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  

  Lindi Ortega
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

  

  James P. Gorman

• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Food

• I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Roles
  • Warrior
  • Pursuing

• I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • Up
  • True
  • Dream

• I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Life
  • Done
  • Game

• I've always wanted to play a samurai warrior.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Warrior