Andrew Yan Quotes
Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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I have a darker imagination than most people.
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
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Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room.
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I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.
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'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
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We're the generation that says 60 is the new 30. We don't let the numbers shape us; we're reshaping the numbers.
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How strong sometimes is weakness!
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Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.
