Yoon Ahn Quotes
We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.
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I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
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If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist-in economic, political, scientific and all the other kinds of struggles as well as the military-then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
