Nora Lum (Awkwafina) Quotes
Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
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I didn't have to learn Selma to make 'Selma.' I didn't have to research what kind of place this is. The people I love most in the world live in that part of the country.
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I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.
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Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.
