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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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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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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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.
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Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.
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I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.
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Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
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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.
