Amy Chua Quotes
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.
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Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
