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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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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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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I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
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I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.
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I love melon! I don't love melon; that's a bit... Melon's my favorite fruit.
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I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
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If you don't know about the 'black male code,' you should. It's something black boys learn early, even before adolescence. It goes, in part, like this: Even though you're not a criminal, some people assume you are, especially if you're wearing certain clothes. Never argue with the police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility.
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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.
