Nora Lum (Awkwafina) Quotes
If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.
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To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
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If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
