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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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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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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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I moved away when I was 17. It's been a mad journey, but I've met and made some incredible friends.
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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
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It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
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When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
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Of course designers inspired me, but I was more inspired by everyday people. People that I see walking down the street.
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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.
